Re: [Hampshire] Instant poweroff

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Author: James
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Instant poweroff

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x583e0100.hantslug.org.uk.28732': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sat Feb 13 14:14:55 2010 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 2FF22CF403F94B5D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 14:08 +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> My Google-foo is clearly deficient. How can I power off a Linux system
> immediately, the equivalent to pulling the plug out of the wall? I don't
> need to terminate processes, umount filesystems, etc, I just want it to
> power off.


Enable Magic SysRq and press Alt+SysRq+O.

James

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