Re: [expert] shutdown..

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Linux can shutdown your machine automatically AND safely only if you
> currently are running single processor mode. If you are shutting down
> from smp, the power manager has been disabled and is unavailable to do
> the shutdown. In the future maybe, but now from smp mode YOU get to push
> the button.
> 
APM (at least in RedHat/Mandrake 5.x and 6.x) is buggy and will cause the
symptoms exhibited by the person who posted the original question. I can't
speak for Mandrake 7.x, though.
        John