Re: Sun Ultra 5, "poweroff" without keyboard (off-topic?)
On 04 Apr 2005 20:47:01 +0200, Sebastian Niehaus
<killedbythoughts@mindcrime.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have an Sun Ultra 5 running Debian Sparc. Usually if I want to
> switch off a maschine I use the command "poweroff".
>
> Anyway, on my Sun Ultra 5 this command does not power off the computer
> as long as the keyboard is not attached. Starting with the keyboard
> pluggend, powering off is enabled as well as the switch at the front
> of the maschine.
You didn't specify which kernel you are running on your system(s). If
you have the file /proc/sys/kernel/scons-poweroff make sure the value
within is "1". If the file does not exist, or is 0, default behaviour
is for shutdown to take you to OBP rather than power-off. Of course,
you can try typing "power-off" at the OBP to do the same-- not sure if
this works on the Ultra5, but generally is supported by OBP.
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