poweroff just does the same as "shutdown -h now" for me: turns off the disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, "shutdown -h now" does indeed turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not adjusted?
By the way, on mandrake when we do shutdown -h now, we see a comforting sequence of messages about this and that being turned off one by one, however with debian's poweroff we see one or two messages --- we don't even know if it has properly turned everything off in sequence or did we use some emergency stop command for use in case of fire only. Indeed all the documentation I read about how to use debian never mentions what happens one day when you (the nerve!) want to turn the computer off. By the way the poweroff man page is a real winner with all the options that only apply to some of the commands, and the different behaviors depending on run level, for such a serious command. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
