[ILUG] Re: Power down on shutdown ?

[John P. Looney]

On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:22:34AM +0100, Killian Breslin mentioned:
> I just changed kernel version from 2.0.36 to 2.2.9. 
> Everything works except when I shutdown, my computer
> doesn't powerdown (it did with 2.0.36).
> 
> I turned on APM, and said yes to "Powerdown on shutdown"
> 
> Did this get broken ?
> Any ideas ?

 Hunt down the halt script in /etc/rc.d/init.d

 Find where it calls halt, and change the it so it calls "halt -p". On
RH6.0, it has a line at the bottom...

eval $command -i -d -p

 ... as it's a generic script, that gets called as halt. Either way, make
sure the last thing it does is "halt -p".

Kate

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