From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 03:12:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E352316A427 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: from jay.exetel.com.au (jay.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F3643D49 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:12:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: (qmail 18048 invoked by uid 507); 21 Mar 2006 14:12:43 +1100 Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (220.233.101.28) by jay.exetel.com.au with SMTP; 21 Mar 2006 14:12:43 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <7e6edc4c961db1f296c1a3d995129635@pacific.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Malcolm Fitzgerald Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:12:42 +1100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Subject: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:12:46 -0000 When I log out and select "Turn off the computer" it shuts down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying this message: "The operating system has halted. Please press any key to reboot." Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have to hold the power button down for several seconds to get a forced power-off or pull the plug. How do I setup BSD so that the command at the login panel turns the machine off? Malcolm