From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 09:22:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA13059 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA13048 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id SAA21152; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:22:40 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (PAA02620); Wed, 7 Aug 1996 15:51:29 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199608071551.PAA02620@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Dummies guide to freebsd ? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 15:51:28 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <199608071143.AA221478232@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> from "Hr.Ladavac" at Aug 7, 96 01:43:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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". Interesting. You can. Sorry: I can, without any problem. -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky