If you're using an old machine from the days before acpi, use the apm utility, no arguments necessary. Greg On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 01:00:55PM -0700, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > I use acpi to check the status. use acpi -b > -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org