Hello All:

I have a P4 based system which I am trying to power off programmatically
through the use of a menu system I am writing. I tried the "-p" flag to
"shutdown" but it did not work. Is there another way anyone knows of to
shutdown and turnoff an Openbsd system programmatically? I am currently
using version 3.3 but will be upgrading to 3.4.

TIA,

Jim

"Jim Lambert" <jaylamb_ert@futrx.com> writes:

> I have a P4 based system which I am trying to power off programmatically
> through the use of a menu system I am writing. I tried the "-p" flag to

shutdown -hp should do the trick. If that fails try this:

sysctl -w machdep.apmhalt=1

and then issue your shutdown command. That is a workaround required
for some hardware. If it solved your problem you can enable the sysctl
in /etc/sysctl.conf.

If it still doesn't work then OpenBSD doesn't know how to tell your
hardware to shut down (or your hardware doesn't support programatic
shutdown).

// marc

Marco S Hyman wrote:
> "Jim Lambert" <jaylamb_ert@futrx.com> writes:
>
>> I have a P4 based system which I am trying to power off
>> programmatically through the use of a menu system I am writing. I
>> tried the "-p" flag to
>
> shutdown -hp should do the trick. If that fails try this:
>
> sysctl -w machdep.apmhalt=1
>
> and then issue your shutdown command. That is a workaround required
> for some hardware. If it solved your problem you can enable the
> sysctl in /etc/sysctl.conf.
>
> If it still doesn't work then OpenBSD doesn't know how to tell your
> hardware to shut down (or your hardware doesn't support programatic
> shutdown).
>

I checked my bios and saw that I didn't have apm enabled in the bios. My
problem now is that when I boot the system it hangs at "apm0 at bios0".
Anyone have any ideas why this might be doing this?

Thanks,

Jim