From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 22:14:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA29773 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA29718 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:14:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA09959; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:15:09 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:15:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: David Greenman cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown vs shutdown -r In-Reply-To: <199606042028.NAA15537@Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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