fp on feebsd

[Jerry Sloan]

Walter Vaughan wrote:

> 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.
> [...]
>
> -- 
> Walter
>
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The command to reboot FreeBSD is this shutdown -r now to reboot, and 
shutdown -h to halt and shutdown

Jerry