On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Civileme wrote:
> "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
> >
> > This must depend on your hardware; it worked just fine for me in RedHat
> > 6.1 as well as in Mandrake 7.0.
> >
> > (With a Dell Inspiron 7500.)
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > | 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
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> Look in initscripts
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt
>
> On the very LAST line
>
> eval $command -i -d -p
>
> remove the -p
>
> Now it won't try to power down and you won't see the errors.
> Just switch off the power yourself.
>
> Civileme
>
>
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> your host which is a network unto itself.
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Hi..
Thanks for the info...I edited out the -p and on shutdown it tells m
Starting halt~ /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt~ call me as "rc.halt " or "rc.reboot"
please
[FAILED]
It does seem to shutdown ok though as I get no error messages on reboot.
Regards Ted
Ted Wager.......Mandrake Linux 7
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