Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:07:41 -0800 From: Ron Gilbert <lists@rzweb.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Shutdown Message-ID: <031FBFF3-328B-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <3518.204.210.136.71.1100029872.squirrel@whatsthebigidea.com> References: <680B1855-3287-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com> <3518.204.210.136.71.1100029872.squirrel@whatsthebigidea.com>
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ah...it's the -h option. I was doing "shutdown now", not "shutdown -h now". Without the -h, the systems halts immediately, without syncing the disks. Thanks! Ron On Nov 9, 2004, at 11:51 AM, David Radovanovic wrote: > >> I just installed 5.3-release, and everything is working great, except >> when I shut down. Every-time I reboot, I get errors that say the >> drives were not shut-down properly and it runs fsck. I am doing >> shutdown and everything seems OK. >> >> After the shut-down process, it says "to enter a shell or hit return >> for /bin/sh". Unlike Redhat, it never says it's safe to shutdown the >> machine. Is this correct, or am I doing some thing wrong to shutdown >> and/or reboot. >> >> This is a older machine and does not have the power-off support. >> >> Ron >> > > >> From one newbie (two years) to another. If you need to, then a >> graceful > shutdown is the way to go, i.e. shutdown -h now or just shutdown -h. > Maybe > there someone out there that knows better. > > Good Luck, > > David Radovanovic > WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. > -- Creative ideas for the Web and beyond! > 249 Partition Street > Saugerties, NY 12477 > (845)247-0909 > http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com >
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