shutdown -p now

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On Wed, 21 May 2003 12:40:11 -0500
"Jack L. Stone" <jackstone at sage-one.net> wrote:

> >My experience has been just the reverse.
> >
> >shutdown -p now
> >
> >did not work on 4.x
> >does work on 5.0
> >
> >I love 5.0.
> >
> >Scott
> >
> 
> I don't want to start a fuss, but your comment about 4.x not working is
> misleading to the list. It's okay to say that it didn't work for you, but
> it was not because 4.x doesn't support the shutdown IF properly configured
> and IF the computer supports it too.
> 
> I know you said "My experience...." but might imply 4.x won't work.


in my experience 4.x cannot power down, even with apm in the kernel, while
5.x can out of the box...