Re: Power off on shutdown not working in 2.2.0-pre9

Todd A. Wood (tawood-yeahright@woodcgi.com)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:50:11 +0100

Meelis Roos wrote:
>
> TP> Machine does not power down when executing "shutdown -h".
>
> You need newer SysVinit. I wonder why the CHanges file doesn't mention
> it?
>
> --
> Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

Well, maybe Changes does not mention it, but...
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help
"Configure.help" [readonly] line 8481 of 11048 --76%-- col 1

CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF
Enable the ability to power off the computer after the Linux kernel
is halted. You will need software (e.g., a suitable version of the
halt(8) command ("man 8 halt")) to cause the computer to power down.
Recent versions of the sysvinit package available from
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/init/ (user:
anonymous) contain support for this ("halt -p" shuts down Linux and
powers off the computer, if executed from runlevel 0). As with the
other APM options, this option may not work reliably with some APM
BIOS implementations.

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On Red Hat:


vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt


change command = "halt" to command = "halt -p"


Cheers.


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