Powering down FreeBSD 5

[Tom Vilot]

Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> Can FreeBSD be configured to actually power off the machine, rather 
> than sit with "Press any key to reboot".
>
> We're redeploying some servers, and we'd like them to be powered on 
> individually, not powered up upon plug-in to the power cable. 


/sbin/shutdown -p

Although it does depend on the hardware being able to do that. i.e., my 
laptop handles that just fine, but not the old dual processor Xeon here ....