Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:17:15 -0700 From: Mike Eubanks <mse_software@charter.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: Owe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?= <oweandre@stud.ntnu.no> Subject: Re: ``shutdown -p now'' not working in 5.4 STABLE Message-ID: <1123276635.4278.23.camel@yak.mseubanks.net> In-Reply-To: <42F33FA6.6060808@stud.ntnu.no> References: <1123187556.786.25.camel@yak.mseubanks.net> <p06230918bf183089b61b@[128.113.24.47]> <Pine.A41.4.61b.0508041420420.85928@aagaard02.u.washington.edu> <1123191266.786.55.camel@yak.mseubanks.net> <42F33FA6.6060808@stud.ntnu.no>
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On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:29 +0200, Owe Jørgensen wrote: > Mike Eubanks wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:21 -0700, J. Nyhuis wrote: > > > > > >> Wouldn't you want a -h for "halt" to prevent it from powering back > >>up? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >>John H. Nyhuis > >>Sr. Computer Specialist > >>Dept. of Pediatrics > >>HS RR349B, Box 356320 > >>University of Washington > >>Desk: (206)-685-3884 > >>cabal@u.washington.edu > >> > >>On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>At 1:32 PM -0700 8/4/05, Mike Eubanks wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>I have finished migrating my system from 5.1-RELEASE to 5.4-STABLE. > >>>>The system no longer powers down using either the `shutdown -p now' > >>>>or `acpiconf -s 5' commands. Instead it always restarts. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>This won't help much, but I have a system running 5.4-STABLE as of > >>>Thu Jul 28, and `shutdown -p now' works on that. Dual-athlon. > >>> > >>>-- > >>>Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > >>>Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > >>>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu > >>> > >>> > > > > > >Yeah, the `-h' option does halt the system. The system does not power > >down though as it should with `-p' (halt and power down). > > > > > > > > > I guess it would be more healthy for the system and your fitness if you > reached down and turned it off manually after a shutdown -h.... :-) Right you are. Once the machine is being used, though, I will need one arm that is at least 240 miles in length and rippling back muscles to carry the weight of my arm. :-) -- Mike Eubanks <mse_software@charter.net>
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