george s. wrote:
> anyway, when i type "shutdown -h now" in netbsd, the os has halts and
> desyncs the disks, etc., and finally echoes "hit any key to reboot..."

"shutdown -p now"

will power off those boxes which support soft power-off.  i'm not quite
sure what kind of message you'll get on a machine that doesn't support it,
tho.

-colin