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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:06:18 +0100
From:      dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: shutdown now probs
Message-ID:  <20030302110618.GB20163@lothlorien.nagual.st>
In-Reply-To: <86vfz2pkll.fsf@vanilla.zzz>
References:  <20030301191450.GA16858@pooh.nagual.st> <86vfz2pkll.fsf@vanilla.zzz>

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On 02 Mar Peter Wu wrote:
> Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> writes:
> 
> > I have an annoying problem. Whenever I want to go to single user
> > mode and run "shutdown now" the system freezes.
> 
> shutdown -h now

NOT an option ;-))

I don't want to halt the system; I want to go to single user mode and
always read there are two ways for this: "boot single" at startup _or_
"shutdown now" on a running system. The latter does not work on my
fbsd-4.7R box and I wander why..

-- 
dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE
++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody)

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