From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 06:56:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3683F16A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C35243FAF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003091513563001600a4qnme>; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:56:30 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8FDuTCo078366; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:56:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h8FDuTAM078363; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:56:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: Tadimeti Keshav References: <20030915073954.21886.qmail@web86010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 15 Sep 2003 09:56:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030915073954.21886.qmail@web86010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <44k78am9yq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 7 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to turn off FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:56:32 -0000 Tadimeti Keshav writes: > I use "halt". It may not be your actual problem, but don't do that. Use "shutdown -h now" instead. [or -p instead of -h if you have power control enabled]