From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 7 17:50:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA02746 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 17:50:18 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA02740 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 17:50:17 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA09333; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 20:49:55 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 20:49:55 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501080149.AA09333@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Not On Our Customer File Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: enclosed ... In-Reply-To: <199501080012.QAA00955@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <199501080012.QAA00955@freefall.cdrom.com> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > 1. System shutdown via "shutdown now" does not get to > a message such as "You may power the system off". > Instead you are prompted for the path of a shell or > as default but the system will reboot if any key > board activity follows; eg. exit. No shutting down crontab. That is a bug. That is to say, `shutdown now' should put you into single-user mode, and the shell path prompt is the first stage of that, but rebooting when you try to type the name of a shell is clearly bogus. Please send a bug report using the `send-pr' command. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant