From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 01:02:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21031 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 01:02:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.eee.org (mail.eee.org [163.150.39.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21021 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 01:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larry_nilsen@eee.org) Received: from eee.org (jtuser29.eee.org [163.150.24.227]) by mail.eee.org (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id BAA10928 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 01:11:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3609FBD0.F77EC114@eee.org> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:59:12 -0700 From: larry_nilsen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Warning was not properly dismounted/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi i have two short Questions; 1) im running FREEBSD2.2.7 I have a root password.Now how do i sign in as root or when im logged in as normal user how can i access root. a lot of commands i try keeps comming back permission denied? 2)When im in FREEBSD and i want to shutdown my computer i understand i should be using the shutdown command.When i use it it comes back saying permission denied.? and then i just type exit it puts me back in the login screen and i turn off the computer there.When i turn on the computer again as FREEBSD is booting up and going through the normal kernel i read somthing that says" (Warning was not properly dismounted) How can i prevent this error from happening again. thankYou! in advance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message