Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:07:01 -0600 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shutdown now probs Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030303100614.023e4e28@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <20030302110618.GB20163@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <86vfz2pkll.fsf@vanilla.zzz> <20030301191450.GA16858@pooh.nagual.st> <86vfz2pkll.fsf@vanilla.zzz>
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Why not simply type reboot and when the system counts down the 10 seconds before booting, press the space-bar and then type: boot -s At 12:06 PM 3/2/2003 +0100, you wrote: >On 02 Mar Peter Wu wrote: > > Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> writes: > > > > > I have an annoying problem. Whenever I want to go to single user > > > mode and run "shutdown now" the system freezes. > > > > shutdown -h now > >NOT an option ;-)) > >I don't want to halt the system; I want to go to single user mode and >always read there are two ways for this: "boot single" at startup _or_ >"shutdown now" on a running system. The latter does not work on my >fbsd-4.7R box and I wander why.. > >-- >dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE >++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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