On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:37:38PM +0100, Kieran Colfer - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> Caolan McNamara wrote:
> >
> > /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
>> you don't know what script that'd be in, no? I'm using SuSE's graphical
> login screen and its shutdown options and stuff.
I use SuSE too - AFAIK its default kernel doesn't include APM support,
without which you can't shutdown on power off. I compiled a new kernel with
APM support and now my machine powers off on CTRL-ALT-DEL with the default
inittab entry
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h -t 4 now
Regards,
Niall
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