Hi,

Duh, thanks!  Always good to re-read those man pages :-)

cheers

bruce

Rudi Ludwig <rudihl@gmx.de> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:35:02 +0100
> From: Rudi Ludwig <rudihl@gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: Toilet seat iBook (the first one) and shutdown
> To: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Cc: port-macppc@NetBSD.org
> reply-to: rudihl@gmx.de
> content-length: 568
> 
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:59:49 +0200
> Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 
> >  Problem.  The shutdown -h now command (or for that matter
> > the halt command) halts the system but doesn't return control
> > to OpenFirmware.  This means that I have to 3 finger reboot
> > and then go to open firmware to type the
> > 
> > shut-down 
> > 
> > command and actually turn the thing off.  No big deal, but,
> > slightly anoying
> <
> 
> If you want to shut-down (power-down) then why not use shutdown -p ?
> Should switch the power off after halting the machine. Works at least
> for me.
> 
> Rudi