Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 22:24:05 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Not On Our Customer File <wpaladin@ic.sunysb.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: enclosed ... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950107222015.27099A-100000@harmonic.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199501080012.QAA00955@freefall.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 7 Jan 1995, Not On Our Customer File wrote: > Hi: > 1. System shutdown via "shutdown now" does not get to > a message such as "You may power the system off". > Instead you are prompted for the path of a shell or > <cr> as default but the system will reboot if any key > board activity follows; eg. exit. No shutting down crontab. shutdown moves you to single user, great for maintenance items like messing with your libararies. shutdown -r does a reset shutdown -h does the halt All of them need a time parameter, like "now". > > 2. CDROM case proclaims JPEG, XView, emacs, ghostscript etc. > > *** BUT they're not there ... > where are the adver. utiliies ? > -- Bill Paladino > Take a look at packages directory, try it with the pkg_info and pkg_add commands, you'll love it (do it as root!). These are pre-compiled binaries, and the pkg_xxx commands do all the installation dirty work for you. Don't forget, after you've added the neat packages you'll find, to do a rehash command so your shell session can find them..... ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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