Re: shutdown now probs
Why not simply type reboot and when the system counts down the 10 seconds before booting, press the space-bar and then type: boot -s At 12:06 PM 3/2/2003 +0100, you wrote: On 02 Mar Peter Wu wrote: Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an annoying problem. Whenever I want to go to single user mode and run shutdown now the system freezes. shutdown -h now NOT an option ;-)) I don't want to halt the system; I want to go to single user mode and always read there are two ways for this: boot single at startup _or_ shutdown now on a running system. The latter does not work on my fbsd-4.7R box and I wander why.. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Peter Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet? -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: shutdown now probs
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I have an annoying problem. Whenever I want to go to single user mode
and run shutdown now the system freezes. Nothing happens; I one
waited for ten minutes or more. Sometimes toggling ctrl+c or enter,
enter, enter smees to work but I never see when exactly.
Something does not go right I suppose, but WHAT ??
My system: FreeBSD-4.7R
Make sure you are viewing virtual console 0 by pressning alt-f1.
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shutdown now probs
I have an annoying problem. Whenever I want to go to single user mode and run shutdown now the system freezes. Nothing happens; I one waited for ten minutes or more. Sometimes toggling ctrl+c or enter, enter, enter smees to work but I never see when exactly. Something does not go right I suppose, but WHAT ?? My system: FreeBSD-4.7R -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: shutdown now probs
Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an annoying problem. Whenever I want to go to single user mode and run shutdown now the system freezes. Nothing happens; I one waited for ten minutes or more. Sometimes toggling ctrl+c or enter, enter, enter smees to work but I never see when exactly. shutdown -h now -- Peter Wu Powered by FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
