Remote Power down

[chezlong]

Is it possible to remote power down pfsense?

[GruensFroeschli]

Yes.

[chezlong]

:D

How?

[GruensFroeschli]

;D
"Diagnostics" –> "Halt System"

Alternatively you can go to the "Diagnostics" --> "Command Prompt" and shut down the same way you would shutdown your standard FreeBSD. ( # shutdown -h now )

[chezlong]

on my system this does not power down, merely halts system,

thx!

[GruensFroeschli]

Yeah. But with the command prompt way it should shut down completely.

[chezlong]

yeah, tried that already, thanks for the response

the console then shows '#' and does not power down

[GruensFroeschli]

Try
shutdown -p now

(at least this powers my virtual box pfsense off and doesnt halt it)

[chezlong]

Thx, now machine gets to reboot prompt, however does not power down…

I feel a rebuild coming on

[chezlong]

rebuild, would seem a hardware issue, as the machine is older, PIII 550

[mhab12]

Sounds to me like your box doesn't support ACPI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface