[Novalug] Need help: Need to build Apcupsd on a FreeBSD 6.2 box

[Brandon Saxe]

I'm running Debian 3.1 on an older Sony Vaio
PCV-LX800. I apparently came with Windows ME, but I
blew that out as soon as I got it. I can't remember if
Windows would shut it down or not.

All the files are there and /etc/default/halt is set
to  poweroff.

I guess I would need to validate what the hardware
support is for this. Is this something related to
ACPI? Is there a driver that should be loaded to do
this correctly?

I have a second Debian 3.1 box as my file server and
it has the same behavior. It has an ASUS P3B-F mobo in
it and I used to run Red Hat on it back in the day. If
I remember correctly, it would indeed power off when
shutdown -h was executed. But with Debian 3.1 it does
not.

--Brandon
 
--- donjr <djr1952 at hotpop.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --  
> -- 
>  Don E. Groves, Jr. 
> 
> $ /usr/games/fortune : 
> Consider well the proportions of things. It is
> better to be a young
> June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
>   -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
>