modem and shutdown

[dylan]

ahh, i didn't know that...
it works well on all of my softpower macs...

dunno?!

dylan

on 02.10.3 6:34 AM, Andrew Hodel at andrew@eurozip.net wrote:

> With halt, on atx pc boards, you still have to push the power button, with
> 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 noise
>>>>> that sounded like a spinning thing coming to rest (it sounded like a
>>>>> good noise). however, it hung up before shutting off the actual power.
>>>>> 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 spelling.
>>>>> :-? 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 more
>>>> information, the last thing mine says before the screen goes blank is
>>>> "stopping all md devices".
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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