On 24-Sep-05, at 10:40 PM, CVD Groups wrote:

> On Sep 24, 2005, at 8:33 PM, John Klos wrote:
>
>>> Secondly, whenever I execute the halt or shutdown -h now commands, I 
>>> notice that NetBSD shuts down by exiting to open firmware again 
>>> instead of an actual powering down.  Also, I can't get open firmware 
>>> itself to shut down (the shut-down command, I believe).  Instead I 
>>> just lose the serial connection. What I do basically is just hit the 
>>> power button and turn the machine off. Still, if there is a way to 
>>> avoid this, I'd appreciate any help.
>>
>> If you'd like to reboot, just shutdown -r, and if you'd like to 
>> poweroff, use shutdown -p. -h halts, and -p powers down the system.
>>
>> John Klos
>
> Aha!  I misunderstood the command options for shutdown!  I thought -h 
> would be responsible for powering down, for some reason.  Looks like I 
> have to pay more attention to the man pages then :)  Thank you!
>
> Erik
>
>

I thought the same.  In my case it's exposure to linux commands.

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