Re: why does no kernel turn off the power ?

Henrik Christian Grove (grove@diku.dk)
15 Jun 1999 17:56:45 +0200


Jochen Heuer <jogi@planetzork.ping.de> writes:

> If your sysvinit is not too old you can try _shutdown -p now_ or
> _poweroff_.

What version of sysvinit would that be? I just checked my local sunsite
mirror, the newest one they got is 2.76, in which shutdown didn't understand
"-p". I've made a patch against sysvinit-2.76 to support this, find it at:
http://www.diku.dk/students/grove/poweroff.html

PS: The kernel's change of behaviour is a feature, not a bug.

-- 
Henrik Grove 
grove@diku.dk
Student of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen

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