From: Kirk M. <km...@ec...> - 2006-10-12 11:14:37
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We're designing another PIC-based piggy-back board which will have to "yank the power" on the Gum as thats the only way to make them "sleep" at the moment - I think a "sync" is probably enough beforehand :-) Kirk Dave Hylands wrote: > Hi Morgan. > > >> I thought I even tried to "shutdown" the netstix and the command came back >> as not found or applet missing or something... this just reinforced my "just >> pull the plug" idea. If there is a clean way to shutdown, I'll look closer >> for the command. >> > > The relevant commands are: > > poweroff - which prepares for poweroff, but because there isn't any > hardware to do so, doesn't actually power anything off. > > halt - does the same thing as poweroff > > reboot - which shutsdown and then goes through the whol boot sequence again. > > -- Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, UK +44 (0)2380 594491 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~km |