Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:41:45 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r223991 - head/sbin/shutdown Message-ID: <201107140241.p6E2fj91009767@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb (doc committer) Date: Thu Jul 14 02:41:45 2011 New Revision: 223991 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/223991 Log: Improvements to the shutdown(8) manual. PR: 158807 Submitted by: arundel MFC after: 1 week Modified: head/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 Modified: head/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 ============================================================================== --- head/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 Thu Jul 14 00:15:26 2011 (r223990) +++ head/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 Thu Jul 14 02:41:45 2011 (r223991) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)shutdown.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 30, 2010 +.Dd July 13, 2011 .Dt SHUTDOWN 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -83,20 +83,20 @@ If one of the .Fl p or .Fl r -is specified, +options are specified, .Nm will execute .Xr halt 8 or .Xr reboot 8 -instead of sending signal to +instead of sending a signal to .Xr init 8 . .It Fl n If the .Fl o -is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing +option is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing .Fl n -option to +to .Xr halt 8 or .Xr reboot 8 . @@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ This option should probably not be used. is the time at which .Nm will bring the system down and -may be the word +may be the case-insensitive word .Ar now (indicating an immediate shutdown) or -specify a future time in one of two formats: +a future time in one of two formats: .Ar +number , or .Ar yymmddhhmm , @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ exits. .Pp At shutdown time a message is written to the system log, containing the time of shutdown, the person who initiated the shutdown and the reason. -Corresponding signal is then sent to +The corresponding signal is then sent to .Xr init 8 to respectively halt, reboot or bring the system down to single-user state (depending on the above options). @@ -176,16 +176,18 @@ utility will place the system into singl .Ar time specified. .Pp -Calling utility as -.Nm poweroff -is equivalent of calling: +Calling +.Dq Nm poweroff +is equivalent to running: .Bd -literal -offset indent shutdown -p now .Ed .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /var/run/nologin -compact .It Pa /var/run/nologin -tells login not to let anyone log in +tells +.Xr login 1 +not to let anyone log in .El .Sh COMPATIBILITY The hours and minutes in the second time format may be separated by
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