Shutting down system

[Vladimir Yourtaev]

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 02:44, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> I have version 5.2 RC#1 installed.
>
> I have not been able to get the shutdown command to power down my computer.
> I used the following command:
>
> shutdown -p now
>
> It simple gets to a point where it says press any key to restart. I never
> had any problem doing a power off shutdown using Windows XP. Can any one
> give me any assistance?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gerard E. Seibert
> gerard-seibert at rcn.com
>
>
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I just solved this problem by rebuild my kernel  with line 
device          apm0    at nexus? flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management. 
I'm reminding that by default this flag is disabled and if compile kernel 
without any flags ( only device apm0) my system FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE 
just rebooted.
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Vladimir Yourtaev <vyou at isd.dp.ua>
ISD Configuration Management Team <cm at isd.dp.ua>