---Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > [snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..] > > > > Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding it? > Do something like > > shutdown -c >/dev/null 2>&1 > or > shutdown -h +2 "message" & > The second idea works. Now All I need to do is to get upsd to also kill the power just before the 'system halted' messge gets printed. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com