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This article is from the the Brief Linux FAQ (BLFAQ) Maintained by Neil Zanella nzanella@ganymede.cs.mun.ca

008. I have shut down my system with the "halt" command and gotten to a message saying "System Halted" but why is my computer still on?

If you want it to power off on shutdown then you must recompile the kernel to enable support for that feature by selecting the appropriate entry in the APM options.

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