On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 07:19:20PM +0200, 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?

Earlier development kernels would change the meaning of `halt' to be
`power-off' if this was enabled, to avoid the need for any change in
SysVinit.  I suppose someone decided this was a bad idea, so now
power-off must be explicitly requested by the shutdown program.  The
new SysVinit does this if the new -p flag is used (together with -f).
So it's necessary to add the -p flag to the halt/shutdown command in
the script that really shuts down the computer - typically
/etc/init.d/halt or /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt.

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