fp on feebsd

[Walter Vaughan]

Enrique Arredondo wrote:

> How do you normally shutdown FREEBSD ? I tried "shutdown -g0 -y" but 
> didn't like it. So I pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL and it did the forced shutdown 
> automatically.

Yeah the 5.X and newer (I built FreeBSD-6 last night, so I understand 
your quest for the unknown side of things) really tries to be more 
mainstream in operation. The boot loader has an option that's very 
MS-Windows like with "Safe Mode" and intercepting the three finger salute.

Get the 4.10 minimal ISO and burn a copy of that. It'll install in about 
10 minutes. That version feels very much like the SCO you're used to.

I've only really used "reboot"

%man reboot

REBOOT(8)               FreeBSD System Manager's Manual

NAME
      reboot, halt, fastboot, fasthalt -- stopping and restarting the system

SYNOPSIS
      halt [-lnqp] [-k kernel]
      reboot [-dlnqp] [-k kernel]
      fasthalt [-lnqp] [-k kernel]
      fastboot [-dlnqp] [-k kernel]

DESCRIPTION
The halt and reboot utilities flush the file system cache to disk, send 
all running processes a SIGTERM (and subsequently a SIGKILL) and, respec
tively, halt or restart the system.  The action is logged, including
entering a shutdown record into the wtmp(5) file.
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Walter