No shutdown on command

[Daniel Robitaille]

> How do I get my machine to actually power off instead of just reaching
> the point where it says "power down"! It's annoying to have to
> physically turn the box off.

depends on the hardware in your machine.

In my case  I simply had to add the word "apm" to /etc/modules and
that did the trick
after the next reboot.  There was been a bunch of e-mails on the
subject on this lists in the past.