debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?
poweroff just does the same as "shutdown -h now" for me: turns off the
disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, "shutdown -h now" does indeed
turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not
adjusted?
By the way, on mandrake when we do shutdown -h now, we see a
comforting sequence of messages about this and that being turned off
one by one, however with debian's poweroff we see one or two messages
--- we don't even know if it has properly turned everything off in
sequence or did we use some emergency stop command for use in case of
fire only.
Indeed all the documentation I read about how to use debian never
mentions what happens one day when you (the nerve!) want to turn the
computer off.
By the way the poweroff man page is a real winner with all the options
that only apply to some of the commands, and the different behaviors
depending on run level, for such a serious command.
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