Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:15:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown vs shutdown -r Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960604221255.9627M-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606042028.NAA15537@Root.COM>
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On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, David Greenman wrote: > The main difference is that "shutdown" without any options just shuts down > to single user. You must then do one of three things: > > 1) type "halt", at which point the system will dismount all filesystems and > halt. > 2) type "reboot", at which point the system will dismount all filesystems and > reboot. > 3) type ctrl-D. at which point the single user shell will be terminated and > the system will come up to multi-user again. That's right. I forgot. > >If it doesn't sync, shoudln't this be fixed? or at least have this > >behavior relegated to a switch? Maybe have -r be the default action? > > "shutdown" without options is only used to go to single-user. Perhaps this > should be made clear in the manual page. Yes. It's only mentioned once, in the last paragraph, as someone mentioned. Thanks to all for the information. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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