Re: Power-off on shutdown -h

[Michael Mansour <micoots yahoo com>]

Hi Alex,

> >>>>From a linux "shutdown -h now", they go to the
> >>"Power
> >>>down" prompt after shutting down the drives, but
> >>they do not power-off.
> >>not the  answer but I use 'poweroff' from the
> >>console, and it does.
> >>
> I've just joined the list, so I've joined this
> thread in the middle, but 
> I presume the original poster wants his machine to
> actually power off 
> when he does shutdown -h? If that is the case... has
> someone mentioned 
> the apm=on kernel parameter yet? I'm new to redhat,
> but that is how it 
> was achieved with debian, in my case..

No this hasn't been mentioned yet. Thanks, I'll give
it a go tonight (now 7 items to try on my list :) and
let you know how it all goes.

Michael.


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