``shutdown -p now'' not working in 5.4 STABLE

[Mike Eubanks]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:21 -0700, J. Nyhuis wrote:
>  	Wouldn't you want a -h for "halt" to prevent it from powering back 
> up?
> 
>  	Thanks,
> 
> John H. Nyhuis
> Sr. Computer Specialist
> Dept. of Pediatrics
> HS RR349B, Box 356320
> University of Washington
> Desk: (206)-685-3884
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> 
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 
> > At 1:32 PM -0700 8/4/05, Mike Eubanks wrote:
> >> I have finished migrating my system from 5.1-RELEASE to 5.4-STABLE.
> >> The system no longer powers down using either the `shutdown -p now'
> >> or `acpiconf -s 5' commands.  Instead it always restarts.
> >
> > This won't help much, but I have a system running 5.4-STABLE as of
> > Thu Jul 28, and `shutdown -p now' works on that.  Dual-athlon.
> >
> > -- 
> > Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
> > Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
> > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


Yeah, the `-h' option does halt the system.  The system does not power
down though as it should with `-p' (halt and power down).


-- 
Mike Eubanks <mse_software at charter.net>