[plug] Mandrake 10 shutdown question

[Michael Holland]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Chris Griffin wrote:

> > from the console, the 3-finger salute will do it. See /etc/inittab  for
> > the 'shutdown' command line that it runs.

> I was trying to avoid this sort of thing, anyway the three finger
> salute would result in a reboot, not a shutdown.

Not if you modify -r to -h in the line I mentioned above.
Why avoid it? It does the proper scripted shutdown.

> Mm, I would have to check this one. What does ACPI do?

Power management. Newer alternative to APM.

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