Re: Auto Shut-off

[ktb <xyf@inetnebr.com>]

As root use the command,
shutdown -h now

See "man shutdown" for more details.  When I use this command I still
have to press the "off/on" button so this might not be exactly the
answer to your question.
hth,
kent


Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> My new box has an automatic shut-off capability, i.e. in ms-windows
> you make shutdown and the box shuts itself off (without the need of
> pressing the button).
> 
> How can I have the same beaveour in Linux?
> 
> Now, whenever I want to shut-off the computer, I do a shutdown at Linux,
> them I must!!! (the switch-off button does not work, it is only a
> switch-on button) go to ms-windows to do a shutdown there (with the
> corresponding shut-off action).
> 
>     At\'e breve
> 
> Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
> Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia
> Universidade de Coimbra
> P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL
> e-mail: quaresma@hilbert.mat.uc.pt
> url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/
> phone: 351 39 791170
> 
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