From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 06:25:07 2003 Return-Path: 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 CCC8E16A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ajax.achean.com (ajax.achean.com [212.87.82.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A895043FAF for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:25:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) Received: from menelaus.office.achean.com (dsl-217-155-191-93.zen.co.uk [217.155.191.93]) by ajax.achean.com (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8HDOc7h054053 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:24:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) Received: from achean.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])h8HDOTZS006237 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:24:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) Message-ID: <3F68608D.7040901@achean.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:24:29 +0100 From: Jon Mercer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030806 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Howse References: <002701c37d1e$5fa781d0$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <002701c37d1e$5fa781d0$04fea8c0@moe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG,X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY version=2.55-achean_mailfilter_v1.00 X-Spam-Report: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been attachedunwanted mail in future. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. the PC supports APM or ACPI. Charles Howse wrote: >>I am a new user learning about Unix. >> >>I found the shutdown command and have been using "shutdown >>now" to shut down >>before powering off. >> >>When >>Amyou to single user mode. > This is not what you want if you're ready toto reboot' prompt > before you power off. > To reboot, use 'shutdown -r now'. > > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" [...] Content analysis details: (0.90 points, 5 required) X_ACCEPT_LANG (-0.1 points) Has a X-Accept-Language header IN_REP_TO (-0.5 points) Has a In-Reply-To header non-spam MUA (Mozilla)headeremail attributionquoted email text relays.osirusoft.com [RBL check: found 93.191.155.217.relays.osirusoft.com.]Open Relay REPLY_WITH_QUOTES (-0.5 points) Reply with quoted text X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55-achean_mailfilter_v1.00 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: 'lrnobs' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to shut down X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:25:07 -0000 'shutdown -p now' will switch off the computer if the PC supports APM or ACPI. Charles Howse wrote: >>I am a new user learning about Unix. >> >>I found the shutdown command and have been using "shutdown >>now" to shut down >>before powering off. >> >>When the pc boots up it complains that it was incorrectly shut down. >> >>Am I following an incorrect procedure? > > > 'shutdown now' will take you to single user mode. > This is not what you want if you're ready to power off. > Use 'shutdown -h now' and wait for the 'press any key to reboot' prompt > before you power off. > To reboot, use 'shutdown -r now'. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ___ ___ | | / | | / | | / /| | / / | | / / | | _____ / / ____ ____ ___ | | / /__| | / ___ \ / /__ / __ \ / _ | | /__ | | / ____ | / / /_/ / ___ \ / /_/ / / / | | / ___ \ | | / / | | / / __ / / \ \ | ___/__ / / / / / / \ \ | | / / | | | |__/ / / / / / | \__/ / | |_| | / / / / | | /__\ /___\ \_____/ /__| /__| \_____/ \__/|_| /__| /__| | | | | www.achean.com | | ============== | | Jon Mercer jon.mercer@achean.com | | | | Mobile 07973 256496 | | | | Tel. 0117 9561211 | | | | Fax 0117 9565637 | +----------------------------------------------------------------+