shutdown -p now

[David Malone]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:39:00PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> > shutdown -p now is dependant upon hardware, and am 100% sure my hardware
> > supports this; yet it still does not work. Must I have anything added to
> > my kernel configuration or anything? 
> 
> What version of FreeBSD are you using?  Do you have ACPI enabled, if on
> 5.x?

With ACPI, don't you need to add:

	hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff=0

to /etc/sysctl.conf if you want ACPI power off to work?

	David.