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Subject: Re: acpi shutdown
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Florian Hengstberger wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I have a standard pc-style computer, how do I enable
>acpi?s automatic shutdown (adding something to /boot/loader.conf ?)
>so that I don?t have to press the power button in then end?
>
>Thanx
>Florian
>  
>

How are you shutting down the computer?

What does "shutdown -p now" do when called
from the console, as root?

KDK