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Re: Can't shutdown my RH 5.1 Linux box!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Lee Green)
Fri Oct 16 21:13:32 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:15:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Lee Green <eric@linux-hw.com>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Boris Lutz wrote:
> Well it sounds strange but I'm not at home right now but I want the box to
> check my emails and do some other work while I'm about 200 miles away, so
> far no problem. Since this can be done in less than an hour each day I have
> set the bios to automatically power on at a certain time and I have put
> this at the end of rc.local to shut down when the job is done (I have
> compiled power management into my kernel): (echo "halt" | at 22:35
> >/dev/null) >& /dev/null
What motherboard? Some motherboards have rather broken APM BIOS, alas.
(Intel motherboards are a big culprit!)
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