Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:43:51 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Cc: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, DARBY1@x400.telkom400.inca.za, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dummies guide to freebsd ? Message-ID: <199608071143.AA221478232@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <199608071130.EAA17282@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Aug 7, 96 04:30:23 am
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E-mail message from Don Yuniskis contained: > It seems that Hr.Ladavac said: > > > > E-mail message from RYAN DARBY contained: > > > > > Also, I get a WARNING : / NOT PROPERLY DISMOUNTED when I boot. I logout > > > and then turn off. I am running on a standalone PC. Am I doing something > > > wrong to get out of it? > > > > Yes. Very wrong, indeed. You should shut the machine down prior to power > > down. The easiest way to do that on a standalone PC is CTRL-ALT-DEL > > (i.e. keyboard machine reset, you know, three-finger-salute :) > > Hmmm... are you *sure* this cleanly kills all processes, flushes > cache, etc. (I don't know for sure...) It does. It does call shutdown -r now, after all. Been doing it for years, never had a problem (I know, anecdotal evidence <knocks on wood> :). > > > You should do that on a console without X running on it. To switch to one > > of these from X use CTRL-ALT-F1 (that will put you in boot console, > > probably the best one for shutdown as all system messages normally appear > > there.) > > I think shutdown silently kills all the VTY's and leaves you *at* > "the" console... Well, it does. But what I said had to do with C-A-D and X: X doesn't propagate the keypresses and it steals the keyboard from the system--read "You cannot C-A-D from X". > > Hmmm... SysV used to check for shutdown/halt stuff coming ONLY from > the console. Now I'm curious if FBSD imposes this also (though > halt from single user mode would *obviously* be from the console! :>) It doesn't check. Neither does SysV nowadays (it was a stupid shutdown users shell/script anyway.) /Marino > > --don >
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