From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 6:44:39 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 DA9BE37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7085043E6A for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 22426 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2002 13:44:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 21 Aug 2002 13:44:27 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C52047A; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:44:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:44:20 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "Bob M." Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the proper shutdown procedure? Message-ID: <20020821134420.GU21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "Bob M." , questions@freebsd.org References: <20020820123727.257bd2bf.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:20:26 +0000 (UTC) > From: "Bob M." > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: What is the proper shutdown procedure? > > Thanks guys, I was using shutdown now to shutdown, but I was wondering if > that was correct since I get this error message "/ was not dismounted > properly" at the end of the boot process. `shutdown now` takes you to the singleuser mode. read the manpage: -h The system is halted at the specified time. ... Corresponding signal is then sent to init(8) to respectively halt, reboot or bring the system down to single-user state (depending on the above options). > I didn't know about halt and man shutdown doesn't refer to > flushing cache, unmounting disks or stopping services. Is there a list of > commands inherent to FreeBSD anywhere? Thanks again, shutdown(8) is not a FreeBSD-specific thing. but agreed, the shudown page could be a little more explicit about certain things. -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 3:37PM up 21:30, 9 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message