From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 6: 9:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin2.email.bigpond.com (unknown [139.134.6.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CB737B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 06:08:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org ([139.134.4.55]) by mailin2.email.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G7TRID00.FVE; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:13:25 +1000 Received: from CPE-203-45-68-28.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([203.45.68.28]) by mail4.bigpond.com (Claudes-Dynamic-MailRouter V2.9c 7/1970100); 28 Jan 2001 00:08:41 From: Danny To: , "Peter Brezny" , Subject: Re: proper shutdown. Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:03:28 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <001201c087db$e1071820$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012801041400.00339@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Type in shutdown -h NOW to shutdown bsd machines properly. On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Peter Brezny wrote: > Is > > shutdown now > > the only command needed to properly shutdown a bsd machine? > > i find that if i do this and turn off the machine once in single user mode, > it comes back up with incorrect block counts. > > What do i need to do to fully prepare the machine to be turned off. > > i have been known to use > > reboot > > and wait until the bios screen comes up, but there's got to be a better way. > > Peter Brezny > SysAdmin Services Inc. > > > > 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