From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 01:34:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00829 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:34:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffy.tpgi.com.au (buffy.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00787 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:33:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA22044; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:33:32 +1000 Received: from tar-ppp-169.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.169), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda22030; Mon Sep 14 18:33:28 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: , Subject: Re: Newbie... Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:33:51 +1000 Message-ID: <01bddfba$66f84660$a91a1acb@gretchen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you want to shut the computer down, type the following commands: shutdown -k now sync sync halt In that order. (just "halt" will do most of the time but it is not as safe as the full thing.) If you just want to get out of the shell prompt, type "exit". >I have placed FreeBSD on my 386, full FreeBSD, no DOS. I am having a problem. >How do you log out gracefully from the login prompt: ? I have been securing >the power from this location. But it will go through a long bootup, stating >that / was not properly dismounted. I am new to UNIX. Still trying to find >my way around. >Thanks for your help. >Mario Condit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message