Re: Shutdown

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-05-10 00:12, Joseph Garcia wrote:
> Sascha Wildner wrote:
> > Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > when I shutdown my notebook (ASUS V6800), I get a message to power it 
> > > of on console, but it doesn't happen "automagically" as in Linux. I 
> > > believe to remember, that I've read somewhere something about an 
> > > sysctl switch which enables this function, but I can't find it again. 
> > > I'm not sure, it was DFly related, it could also be FBSD related.
> >
> >
> > How do you shutdown? 'shutdown -p now' should do the trick.
> >
> > Sascha
>
> Typically, I used 'halt -p' instead of 'shutdown -p now'. Now I'm 
> wondering if there's a major difference. Either way, it shutdown my 
> computer.

Not really sure but I believe that shutdown calls halt or reboot, so the 
results should be roughly the same. I think shutdown sends a message to 
all users logged in before calling halt, can be used to put the system 
down at a specific time etc. while halt just shuts down now.

Erik Wikström
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