From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 11:24:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E80737B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web14803.mail.yahoo.com (web14803.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7E8C43E42 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davemac11@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020820182415.93143.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [165.138.38.56] by web14803.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:24:15 PDT Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:24:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave McCammon Subject: Re: What is the proper shutdown procedure? To: "Bob M." , questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- "Bob M." wrote: > > Hi everybody, > I was wondering what process to follow when shutting > down. Do you umount > all the disks first? If so, any particular order? > would you do umount -A > and does this cover / also? Would you stop services > before or after or > not at all, does the o/s stop them for you? Do you > use *exit*? Can I > just hit the power button? :-) Thanks, > Bob shutdown -h now The -h is for halt and the now is the time check out man shutdown __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message