If linux will do it for you automatically why would you want to do it by hand.
I can give you another reason for wanting power management with linux. My
crappy intel network card for some reason forgets how to work after a soft
reset. I need to power off to get it to work. So, everynow and then when linux
hangs or I need to reboot for some reason, when I do "reboot" the box powers
down automatically and then restarts without any intervention from me.
On 12-Apr-99 Michael Merritt wrote:
>
> Giovanni Cambria wrote:
>>
>> I 'm not able to auto power off my linux box.
>> I've an ATX PII, kernel 2.2.5 with auto power off option enabled.
>> windoze (bleah!) 9x can do it easily, why my beatyful Linux cannot?
>
> Uhm, why do you _WANT_ to power off your Linux box? Linux does not have
> a "Shutdown" command per sey. The way I turn mine off (for hardware
> changes) is to do a --
> shutdown -rf now
> and when the BIOS screen comes up after rebooting, kill the power. You
> shouldn't ever need to just kill the power to a Linux box...
>
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