From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 3 8: 7: 0 2003 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 834B637B401 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from spxgate.servplex.com (ip66-105-58-82.z58-105-66.customer.algx.net [66.105.58.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C13043FBD for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:06:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Received: from peter.servplex.com ([192.168.0.96]) by spxgate.servplex.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h23GHOMe054738; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:17:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030303100614.023e4e28@mail.servplex.com> X-Sender: peter@mail.servplex.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:07:01 -0600 To: dick hoogendijk From: Peter Elsner Subject: Re: shutdown now probs Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20030302110618.GB20163@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <86vfz2pkll.fsf@vanilla.zzz> <20030301191450.GA16858@pooh.nagual.st> <86vfz2pkll.fsf@vanilla.zzz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 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