Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-05-01 Thread Brenda J. Butler
Today's the day for UPS questions... On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:33:03AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > shutdown -h now switches to runlevel 0 and performs an orderly shutdown > ending with the message power down. That other operating? system can > turn the computer off. > > The difference

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread craigw
On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 01:24:21PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:49:18 -0700 > > "craigw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have the same problem on a Compaq. This box has RedHat 7.2, Mandrake > > > 8.2,

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:49:18 -0700 > "craigw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have the same problem on a Compaq. This box has RedHat 7.2, Mandrake > > 8.2, Debian (mostly)Potato with a hand rolled 2.4.18, Corel 1.2 with a > >

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:49:18 -0700 "craigw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the same problem on a Compaq. This box has RedHat 7.2, Mandrake > 8.2, Debian (mostly)Potato with a hand rolled 2.4.18, Corel 1.2 with a > hand rolled 2.2.18, and Windoze 98. They all have apm support but > Windoze is

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I > connect nothing but the computer to the battery support - not even the > monitor. Once the power failure shutdown has been tested I don't need > to see what's happening.) Are you using the UPS for surge protection as well as battery backup

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread craigw
On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 10:24:43AM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:33:03 -0500 > "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > shutdown -h now switches to runlevel 0 and performs an orderly shutdown > > ending with the message power down. That other operating? syst

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:33:03 -0500 "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shutdown -h now switches to runlevel 0 and performs an orderly shutdown > ending with the message power down. That other operating? system can > turn the computer off. You don't meantion what kernel version y

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread CaT
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:33:03AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > shutdown -h now switches to runlevel 0 and performs an orderly shutdown > ending with the message power down. That other operating? system can > turn the computer off. You'll need to compile APM into your kernel. Just enable

poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
shutdown -h now switches to runlevel 0 and performs an orderly shutdown ending with the message power down. That other operating? system can turn the computer off. The difference was never important to me until I installed a ups. Previously I never left the computer unattended so I was always