shutdown / power off

[James McDonald]

Vu Pham wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:09 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
>   
>> vu pham wrote:
>>     
>>> I installed F7 to my PC at home. Everything seems fine but the power
>>> off. When I shut it down, it shuts down all the processes and says
>>> "System halted" but it does not power off the system.
>>>
>>> For this same system with Suse 10.2, it powers off the system just fine.
>>>
>>> Do I need some package to do this ? Or do I have to change some
>>> configuration file or recompile the kernel ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Vu
>>>   
>>>       
>> Add poweroff=1 to system.ini
>>
>>     
>
> Yeah, I did that but it didn't help. I also tried some registries
> also. :)
>
> The one in the office powers off just fine, but that does not say
> anything because the hardware of the two systems are not the same.
>
> Vu
>
>   
I had the same issue with a Redhat box but I think it's something to do 
with ACPI or APM or something

There should be a config file somewhere to stop this behaviour but as a 
workaround
open /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and add a -p to the halt command.

case "$0" in
   *halt)
        message=$"Halting system..."
        command="/sbin/halt"