From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 3: 7:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snowy.org (snowy.org [203.37.251.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EEB837B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 03:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (snowy@localhost) by snowy.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e93A7Gx66057; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:07:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from snowy@snowy.org) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:07:15 +1000 (EST) From: Sleepless in Brisbane To: D M P Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get shutdown -p to work? In-Reply-To: <39D99E64.BC98EA77@aracnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, D M P wrote: > How do I get the -p option (turn off power on shutdown) to work? The > shutdown(8) man page says hardware support is required. I can only > think that this means the option requires the ATX design's soft-off > capability, but it doesn't seem to be working on my system--4.1-R on > an Intel Venus mainboard (PPro, VS440FX). Any ideas? Let me know if > you need more information. Things like power off and such require you to have APM support compiled into the kernel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message