What if I had my Linux box monitoring my UPS and when the power was out
the Linux box received a "Low Battery" signal from the UPS? I might want
to have my box do a clean shutdown and then power it off before the
battery in the UPS goes dead.
Michael Merritt wrote:
>
> Giovanni Cambria wrote:
> >
> > I 'm not able to auto power off my linux box.
> > I've an ATX PII, kernel 2.2.5 with auto power off option enabled.
> > windoze (bleah!) 9x can do it easily, why my beatyful Linux cannot?
>
> Uhm, why do you _WANT_ to power off your Linux box? Linux does not have
> a "Shutdown" command per sey. The way I turn mine off (for hardware
> changes) is to do a --
> shutdown -rf now
> and when the BIOS screen comes up after rebooting, kill the power. You
> shouldn't ever need to just kill the power to a Linux box...
>
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