Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:40:14 -0400 From: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy1@home.com> To: "Todd Reed" <ex279@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kicking off current users Message-ID: <20010918204029.MZHN24786.femail31.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> In-Reply-To: <F64HG0anlzmUR7BED0k0000c378@hotmail.com> References: <F64HG0anlzmUR7BED0k0000c378@hotmail.com>
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On September 18, 2001 02:05 pm, Todd Reed wrote: > OK, I'm not sure if I've been asking the right questions or what, but here > goes for a final time! > > I use the "shutdown -k now" to disable logins. If anyone is currently > logged into the system, they do not get kicked out. How can I kick all of > them out to prepare for a backup without doing a shutdown? > Read the 'shutdown' manpage, I seem to recall there is a 'fake' shutdown that will kick users but not actually shutdown. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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