From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 7 19:24:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA05998 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 19:24:21 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA05988 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 19:24:18 -0800 Received: from harmonic.eng.umd.edu (harmonic.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.128]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id WAA10819; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 22:24:07 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by harmonic.eng.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) id WAA27114; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 22:24:07 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 22:24:05 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Not On Our Customer File cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: enclosed ... In-Reply-To: <199501080012.QAA00955@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------