[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] Need help: Need to build Apcupsd on a FreeBSD 6.2 box

[donjr]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 07:31 -0700, Brandon Saxe wrote:
> > If 'shutdown -P' doesn't power off your system then
> > you need to adjust
> > the shutdown subsystem.
> 
> I have a machine that does not power off with this.
> How does one 'adjust the shutdown system' as stated
> above so that it does?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Brandon

First question:
  Does your HARDWARE support the feature?
  If it doesn't the best you can ever do is HALT the system and request
that the operator switches the power off.

  What disturprodution(sp) are you running?

As it depends on where the configuration files {if any} are located.

In Ubuntu and most Debian based distru<G> there is a file:
   /etc/default/halt

Which should contain something close to:

# Default behaviour of shutdown -h / halt. Set to "halt" or "poweroff".
HALT=poweroff

If it doesn't adjust and test things out.

Next step
  Look in /etc/rc0.d/  for the file S90halt
   $ ls -l /etc/rc0.d/S??halt

The above should return something like:
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 14 2005-05-07 04:29 /etc/rc0.d/S90halt -> ../init.d/halt

{-:
 Note the date and time will most likely be different as the above
 is from my older Debian based system.
 :-}

 If it there then study the file:
   less /etc/init.d/halt

 For ideas as to where to look next.

WARNING:
  Do not try to execute /etc/init.d/halt directly.
  It is intended to be ran by 'init' at the end of runlevel 0 and will
only work correctly in that contents.
  Otherwise bad things can and will happen.

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