At 13:26 13.06.00 +0100, Kieran Colfer - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
>how do you get a machine to actually shut down when you choose
>"shutdown"? I have a laptop here which I am instaling, and rather than
>just getting to the "system halted" and then just doing nothing, I want
>the thing to actually power off.
/sbin/poweroff | /sbin/halt -p
Don't know if that addition to the standard sysvinit tools made its way
into all the distributions yet but ver 2.78 has it anyway
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