modem and shutdown

[Andrew Hodel]

With halt, on atx pc boards, you still have to push the power button, wit=
h=20
shutdown now -h, you don't.  I am not sure if this is true on mac.

Andrew

On Friday 04 October 2002 04:50, dylan wrote:
> why not use the command:
>
> 'halt'
>
> dylan
>
> on 02.10.3 4:27 AM, Andrew Hodel at andrew@eurozip.net wrote:
> > I am quite sure that it is:
> >
> > /sbin/shutdown now -h
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On Friday 04 October 2002 03:43, Cynthia Croy wrote:
> >>> 2.  I've tried to shutdown in a couple of ways none of them very
> >>> successful: a) graphic shutdown button in KDE.
> >>> result:  tried to shutdown, sent kill signal, etc.  there was a noi=
se
> >>> that sounded like a spinning thing coming to rest (it sounded like =
a
> >>> good noise). however, it hung up before shutting off the actual pow=
er.=20
> >>> the last thing it did was, "flushing ide devices hda hdb."
> >>> b) comman "halt -p"
> >>> result:  same as for step (a) above.
> >>> c) command "/sbin/shutdown -h"
> >>> result:  invalid command.  Yes, i was root, and checked the spellin=
g.=20
> >>> :-? d) command "shutdown -h now"
> >>> result: invalid command.  i was root, and checked the spelling. :-?
> >>> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Two ideas:
> >>
> >> Have you tried "/sbin/shutdown -h now"?
> >>
> >> For the a and b, what happens if you shut off the power and start up
> >> again? If you don't get a message about unmounting uncleanly with a =
disk
> >> check forced, I would think it shut down properly. Just for a bit mo=
re
> >> information, the last thing mine says before the screen goes blank i=
s
> >> "stopping all md devices".
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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