Meelis Roos wrote:
> 
> TP> Machine does not power down when executing "shutdown -h".
> 
> You need newer SysVinit. I wonder why the CHanges file doesn't mention
> it?
> 
> --
> Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)


Well, maybe Changes does not mention it, but...
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help
"Configure.help" [readonly] line 8481 of 11048 --76%-- col 1

CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF
  Enable the ability to power off the computer after the Linux kernel
  is halted. You will need software (e.g., a suitable version of the
  halt(8) command ("man 8 halt")) to cause the computer to power down.
  Recent versions of the sysvinit package available from
  ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/init/ (user:
  anonymous) contain support for this ("halt -p" shuts down Linux and
  powers off the computer, if executed from runlevel 0). As with the
  other APM options, this option may not work reliably with some APM
  BIOS implementations.

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On Red Hat:

vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt

change command = "halt" to command = "halt -p"

Cheers.

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