On 10/1/05, Jonas Sundström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Cuthbert wrote: > > Something I've always wondered (and been a bit > > annoyed with)... why does "shutdown -h now" respond > > with: > > > > Shutting down ACPI > > > > The operating system has halted. > > Please press any key to reboot. > > > > > > I realise this is a BSDism, but I've never understood the > > point. Why not keep ACPI running and instruct it to shut > > down the machine? Amongst other things, it makes it > > easier to do a remote power cycle with WoL (and other > > situations where you might not necessarily have a > > keyboard attached). > > As others have pointed out, shutdown -p is what you want. > > In NetBSD on Sun hardware with OpenBoot firmware > "shutdown -h now" gets you back to the firmware prompt. > The OS halts and you're dropped in "BIOS", so to speak. > It works over serial too, so you can use it headless. > > I believe Solaris works this way too, but I haven't tried it myself.
On Solaris, "shutdown -g 0 -i 0" will shutdown the machine. I don't known whether this command will turn off the power or not, since my Sun workstation is quite old, every time I will have to unplug the wire (power button is malfunction) to stop it :-P > > I really like the Sun Blade 100, but I'm extra sensitive to noise, > so it's got to go. :I > > /Jonas Sundström. www.kirilla.com > > -- Live Free or Die
