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auto power off
Name: suzuki Date: January 4, 2003 at 04:37:52 Pacific OS: linux CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Hi all. I was wondering how to set auto power off. It's kind of troublesome shutting down the power manually. thanks
Name: VincentS Date: January 4, 2003 at 08:28:04 Pacific
Reply:
Try typing: shutdown -t "time in minutes" Without the "", and i'm not shure about the -t thing, but you can always try -? or -help :)
Vincent
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Response Number 2
Name: Balram Adlakha Date: January 4, 2003 at 12:00:55 Pacific
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Vincent, I don't think he meant that...
Suzuki, to completely poweroff the computer with shutdown -h you need to have ACPI support in the kernel and the bootscripts of your distro have to support it...I'm currently trying to find out the role of the bootscripts, but most of the newer distributions like redhat 8.0 support this feature out-of-the-box.
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Response Number 3
Name: suzuki Date: January 4, 2003 at 22:45:30 Pacific
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Hi my linux machine is slack so it doesn't support it. suzuki
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