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Date:      Sat, 7 Jan 1995 20:49:55 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Not On Our Customer File <wpaladin@ic.sunysb.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   enclosed ...
Message-ID:  <9501080149.AA09333@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199501080012.QAA00955@freefall.cdrom.com>
References:  <199501080012.QAA00955@freefall.cdrom.com>

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<<On Sat, 7 Jan 95 19:11:47 EST, Not On Our Customer File <wpaladin@ic.sunysb.edu> said:

>         1. System shutdown via "shutdown now" does not get to
>         a message such as "You may power the system off".
>         Instead you are prompted for the path of a shell or
>         <cr> as default but the system will reboot if any key
>         board activity follows; eg. exit. No shutting down crontab.

That is a bug.  That is to say, `shutdown now' should put you into
single-user mode, and the shell path prompt is the first stage of
that, but rebooting when you try to type the name of a shell is
clearly bogus.  Please send a bug report using the `send-pr' command.

-GAWollman

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