Subject: Re: Laptop and Power Management
To: Timo Schmidt <netbsd@xomit.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/16/2004 18:05:52
In message <20040216230223.GA2356@gate.xomit.de>, Timo Schmidt writes:
>On Mon Feb 16 2004 16:55, Emre Yildirim wrote:
>>
>> shutdown -r now doesn't power the machine down.  I get:
>
>Because "shutdown -r" was made to reboot the machine.
>

Right, but he described it as hanging, not rebooting.  

What does 'shutdown -p' do?

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb