From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 15:45:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4A037B58D for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 15:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (tntwc01-3-238.idx.com.au [203.166.3.238]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA25729; Tue, 16 May 2000 08:45:11 +1000 From: Danny To: "Duke Normandin" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: shutdown now Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:51:24 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000801bfbd5b$031d7900$a2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00051708520400.00360@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, - Instead of "shutdown NOW" try - "shutdown -h NOW" Looking forward to your feedback. dannyh dannyh@idx.com.au On Sun, 14 May 2000, Duke Normandin wrote: > Whenever I use ` shutdown now ` to drop into single-user mode, > I get the following error message: > > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: -> I hit Enter > > syntax error: Bad substitution > > I hit ^D and all files are re-read w/o the system checks (which is > what I want). How do I get rid of this "syntax" error? > > -duke > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message