From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 7:47:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCE41521C for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:47:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11lZy5-000EgI-00; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:47:29 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA31307; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:47:29 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:47:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Group problems In-Reply-To: <199911101543.KAA17327@world.std.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, i'll check it out. And if it isn't just pilot error, i'll try to duplicate the 'bug'. Thanks for the help... On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "shutdown" >you should get a usage error. > >If you type: > "shutdown now" >you should end up in single-user mode (and prompted for a shell, with >/bin/sh the default). > >If you type: > "shutdown -h now" >you should end up with the system halted (and a prompt telling you to >hit any key to reboot). > >Any deviation from that constitutes a bug, and if you can come up with >a recipe for reproducing it, you should file a PR. [Well, the one >deviation is that you can't execute the command at all unless you're >in the wheel group.] > > - Lowell > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message