Ted Wager wrote:
>
> 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
> > > --
> > > "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org
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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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Remember that if it is done on networks, it may occur on
> > your host which is a network unto itself.
> --
>
> 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
> g3tpi.ampr.org 44.131.147.8
>
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It made a backup of the original S01halt script and the new one
was not saved for some reason. make sure the new script (without
the -p) is saved and delete the backup script (name ending in ~)
And I goofed.... Edit rc.halt which S01halt is a symlink to...
You may need to do a
# whereis rc.halt
to find it
Civileme
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