Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:08:53 +0100 From: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Shutdown Message-ID: <20041110050852.GC1076@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de> In-Reply-To: <031FBFF3-328B-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com> References: <680B1855-3287-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com> <3518.204.210.136.71.1100029872.squirrel@whatsthebigidea.com> <031FBFF3-328B-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com>
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004, Ron Gilbert wrote: > 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! Hi, "shutdown now" gets the system down in single user mode (for special administration). To get back again answer to the question which shell to use with: sh or simply hit return and then type exit and the system will get in multi-user-mode again. I do: shutdown -p now to shutdown my system correctly. Oliver > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit
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