Hi,

i am trying to get my machine to powerdown at 00:00 at night and startup arround dinertime when i get back home.

I already searched for a good way to do this, and so i added some lines to my go script:

 

#install powerdown script
CTRLALTDEL=YES LOGSAVE=30 installpkg /boot/packages/powerdown-1.02-noarch-unRAID.tgz

#powerdown machine at 00:15
echo "/sbin/powerdown" | at 00:15

 

i tried a manual /sbin/powerdown at it seams to be working oke.

 

But when i do this and the system is powerd down. 2 seconds later its starting again automaticly. then its going off and on all the time. its starting stopping in a loop.

what i figured out is that this is not happening when i do a manual shutdown with the power down command in unraid.

 

the second thing i found out is that it is only doing this when the network cable is connected. When i disconnect the network cable it is staying off and is not going on and off in a loop off 2 seconds.

 

i checked the bios and sleep function is set to auto (cant set to off). Also all possibilities like wol option and other power up options are set to disabled.

 

but somehow it seams that the network port is trigering the machine to go on and immidiatly off agian.

 

anyone has an idea?

what can this be?

 

its a mini itx atom ion board POV330 with 2gb ram and a AOC-SASLP-MV8

http://www.pointofview-online.com/showroom.php?shop_mode=product_detail&product_id=97

 

--edit1--

 

oke i did a normal shutdown now and it looks like the machine is using the new powerdown script aswell. But this time the machine is also trying to boot up directly after shutdown. This time it was only 1 "fake boot".

 

then i did enter: /sbin/powerdown in the machine directly, so not via telnet. and it does shutdown normally as it seams. but it also having 1 extra boot up hickup before completely powering down.

 

doesnt seem to be very good for my hdd's

 

Everything you are describing would be true if your network card is set in the BIOS to wake the server on ANY lan activity.  (not WOL, which requires a special packet be sent)