Shutdown And User Intervention

[Andreas Davour]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Rishi Chopra wrote:

> Is there a way to issue a shutdown command that
> doesn't require me to press a key to reboot?
>
> Currently when I enter the command 'shutdown -p' the
> system shuts down gracefully but I have to press a key
> to reboot the system.
>
> Ultimately I'd like to be able to power-off the system
> gracefully without requiring the user (me) to press a
> key  afterwards.

Check if you have the acpi kernel module loaded. Without it, the 
"shutdown -p" can't shutoff the computer without human intervention. At 
least in no way I know.

/andreas

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