On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 12:13, Robert Canary wrote: > I don't believe that is what he is talking about Brady. Every idiot, > (down to the junior newbies) knows what happens when you you do a hard > power down. Given that I don't believe he asking to shut power off at > the machine to shut it down. > > Some machine do have the on/off (power) configurable in the BIOS. Some > are interfaced into the motherboard. Most of your new machines do > this. It really depends on the hardware spec of your machine. This > discussion has come up before(rarely). And yes it can be done, but I > have only seen it done by way of a configurable BIOS power switch.
Not only that, but if you use gdm/kdm to manage logins, there's a shutdown option right there on the screen after you logout. My machine will power down when the OS tells it to, so I just select Shutdown on the gdm System menu, turn off the monitor, and walk away. The computer will turn off by itself when the shutdown process is complete. Obviously, if you're running on older hardware, shutting down properly each time can get to be a pain, but recovering from backup is worse. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05 Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
