On January 09 Friday 2004 12:49 pm, Ben Yau wrote: > > Ben Yau wrote: > > >>And there it'll stay, will not turn off until I hit the off > > >>switch on the box. > > >>Did I miss something on the install? Or an option I can enable > > >> somewhere hidden in front of me? > > >>Again thanks in advance for any and help. > > > > > > What command are you using to shut your box down? > > > By default shutdown goes to runlevel 1 which is basically > > > > administrative or > > > > > single user mode. Poweroff (halt) is runlevel 0. If you're using > > > "shutdown" command try > > > "shutdown -h" > > > > > > If you're using "init" command try > > > "init 0" > > > > using > > # shutdown -h now > > > > will take him to the screen he described. as i understand it, to get > > that to power off the machine as well, you must have acpi set up. > > Thanks Shane. I actually don't use shutdown -h. I am getting that from > the man page I use "init 0" on my personal linux box and it automatically > powers off. I just figured in the man page "0" was "halt" and then from > the shutdown manpage "-h" is halt. Does "init 0" not automatically > poweroff then? (or else acpi must have inadvertently been installed) > > Good to learn- On install of RH I do remember not using or enabling acpi, I did have problems with it when installing mandrake (my first). Carlos -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
