My system does not powerdown when I do shutdown -p now.  It just halts,
which is what the man page for shutdown says it should do if the system
isn't configured for software powerdown.  After I reboot, fsck does not
run.  However when I manually turn off the system after logging off, fsck
does run.  Nothing unexpected, but very annoying.  How can I get around
this?
Thanks,
Yasir

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:43:17 -0500
> From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
> To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
> Subject: Re: powerdown system
>
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312131027480.29943@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>, Ya
> sir Malik writes:
> >Hi,
> >I want to shutdown my system using shutdown -p now, but whenever I do so,
> >the system halts and asks me to press any key to reboot.  How can I
> >configure my system to support software powerdown?  I usually
> >manually shutdown my machine after logging off, but this causes a scan
> >disk at the next time I boot.  This is very annoying because I have to
> >wait more than a minute for it to finish.  Can anyone help me out?
>
> If you power down your machine after seeing that message, before
> rebooting, you I'm surprised it runs fsck -- I've never seen that.
> To cause the machine to power itself down, you probably need either apm
> support or acpi support (in -current only for acpi, I think).
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
>
>