Dear Alessio below is the answer I received from SuSE technical support on this issue. I use 5.3, hence I can't verify what they say, but they *do* say halt -p is supported in 6.0. Therefore when you call hutdown -h now your change of 'halt -p' in the shutdown script should work! k. p.s. the AX59 is a good board (I use it too), but power off is nothing to do with board's bios, as Linux turns it off.... :-) Dear Mr. Clegg,

Regcode: V5FHWL

Dear Support

In many newsgroups, I've seen the advice to shutdown the computer

by adding

halt -p

to the shutdown script (i.e. run as part of the 'shutdown -h now' command). However, my version of halt with SuSE 5.3 does not seem to have a -p

completely option.

How can I get the computer to turn itself off completely when 'shutdown -h now' is run? I'm sure the 2.0.36 kernal supports this, as so many people keep advising it in the newsgroups. Can you help?

Many thanks,

k.

I think not much. I think that our halt in 5.3 does not support -p, but our halt in 6.0 does support it. halt is in the package sysvinit. I've looked for an update for 5.3 but there isn't one here. best regards, Your S.u.S.E. Support-Team Bernhard Kaindl (Bernd.Kaindl@suse.de) SuSE Linux 6.0 is also available with an a french or an italian manual. French installation support from native speakers in french is also available. ============================================================ SuSE GmbH, Tel: +49-911-7405330 Mo/Do 13-18.00 Schanzaeckerstr. 10, Fax: +49-911-3206727 D-90443 Nuernberg, Email: support@suse.com Germany WWW: <A HREF="http://www.suse.com"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com</A">http://www.suse.com</A</A>> ============================================================ Are you searching for an answer for a difficult Linux issue? ------------------------------------------------------------ Let the search engine of Wooven Goods für Linux do the work: <A HREF="http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/linux-doc.html"><A HREF="http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/linux-doc.html</A">http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/linux-doc.html</A</A>> -------------------------------------------- At "Detailed Search" you'll also find these search options: Case sensitive Partial match Jump to line misspellings allowed Return only files modified within the last ... days Maximum number of files returned Maximum number of matches per file returned ==================================================== Our SuSE Supportdatabase online(unlimited free Access): ------------------------------------------------------- <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/key_form.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/key_form.html</A">http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/key_form.html</A</A>> Our SuSE Hardwaredatabase online: --------------------------------- <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/cdb/english/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/cdb/english/</A">http://www.suse.de/cdb/english/</A</A>> ======================================== Books about Linux can be found at: <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Books/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Books/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Books/index.html</A</A>> ------------------------------------ ======================================== -----Original Message----- From: Alessio Isaja <i0100285@ingstud.univ.trieste.it> To: Kester Clegg <kester@cwcom.net> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] still Aopen and poweroff (sorry :^) :i have the latest version 6.0 and I think (but I am not sure) that its :'halt' command supports the '-p' option. Also Ithink that in the poweroff :command this '-p' is supported in some way that I don't know (it's a :binary, not a script) :I've also tried to put the '-p' option in the halt rc script, but i dosn't :work: it halts everything as always, but instad of powering off the :machine it hangs :^) :are you more lucky? :Ciao, : Alessio : -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>