From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 19:51:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9498516A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:51:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from inside.siteplus.com (ns1.siteplus.com [66.129.2.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2C643D31 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:51:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@whatsthebigidea.com) Received: from whatsthebigidea.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inside.siteplus.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with SMTP id iA9JpCc7066832; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:51:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dave@whatsthebigidea.com) Received: from 204-210-136-71.hvc.rr.com ([204.210.136.71]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user bigidea) by whatsthebigidea.com with HTTP; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:51:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3518.204.210.136.71.1100029872.squirrel@whatsthebigidea.com> In-Reply-To: <680B1855-3287-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com> References: <680B1855-3287-11D9-8E5A-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:51:12 -0500 (EST) From: "David Radovanovic" To: "Ron Gilbert" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dave@whatsthebigidea.com List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:51:13 -0000 > I just installed 5.3-release, and everything is working great, except > when I shut down. Every-time I reboot, I get errors that say the > drives were not shut-down properly and it runs fsck. I am doing > shutdown and everything seems OK. > > After the shut-down process, it says "to enter a shell or hit return > for /bin/sh". Unlike Redhat, it never says it's safe to shutdown the > machine. Is this correct, or am I doing some thing wrong to shutdown > and/or reboot. > > This is a older machine and does not have the power-off support. > > Ron > >From one newbie (two years) to another. If you need to, then a graceful shutdown is the way to go, i.e. shutdown -h now or just shutdown -h. Maybe there someone out there that knows better. Good Luck, David Radovanovic WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. -- Creative ideas for the Web and beyond! 249 Partition Street Saugerties, NY 12477 (845)247-0909 http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com