From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 11:18: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D4B37B40A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (8.12.0.Beta8/8.12.0.Beta8) with SMTP id f8III3UM012667; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:18:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: "Todd Reed" , Subject: RE: Kicking off current users Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:18:03 -0700 Message-ID: <006401c1406e$41ecc220$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal 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 "init 1" will take you into single user mode. You can use "wall" to send a message to all users that are currently logged into, then do the "init 1". Kory > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Todd Reed > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:06 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Kicking off current users > > > OK, I'm not sure if I've been asking the right questions or what, > but here > goes for a final time! > > I use the "shutdown -k now" to disable logins. If anyone is currently > logged into the system, they do not get kicked out. How can I > kick all of > them out to prepare for a backup without doing a shutdown? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message