[SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread henry
Dear List: I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press power-button to close power) But I found that I cant do it on Redhat70 by typing "shutdown now". Could you give some clue ? Thanks in advance! Henry

Re: [SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread Christopher Booth
shutdown -h now shuts down the pc from the command prompt also halt and telinit 6 I believe Regards Christopher Booth shutdown now work on Solaris from memory On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:16:01 +1000 henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List: I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont

Re: [SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread David Fitch
I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press power-button to close power) But I found that I cant do it on Redhat70 by typing shutdown now. Could you give some clue ? in the past I've had to recompile the kernel and enable all the apm/power management stuff to make shutdown

Re: [SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread Tony Green
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 18:42, David Fitch wrote: I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press power-button to close power) But I found that I cant do it on Redhat70 by typing shutdown now. Could you give some clue ? in the past I've had to recompile the kernel and enable

Re: [SLUG] How to soft-shutdown my computer ?

2002-04-24 Thread Robert Reid
If the power management isn't compiled in, maybe RedHat have made it a module. If they have, it will be called apm, so you can load it with modprobe apm. Then try the shutdown -h now. Rob DaZZa wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, henry wrote: I can soft-shutdown my Win98(ie , I dont need to press