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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.he.net!rtd.com!dgy From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Powering Down Date: 10 Jul 1997 20:23:25 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5q3gbt$m6o@baygull.rtd.com> References: <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk> <01bc8d3d$31f91460$27366d81@masscomp> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44235 In article <01bc8d3d$31f91460$27366d81@masscomp>, Ernest C. Hymel <ehymel@utmb.edu> wrote: >Are you waiting for the system to tell you it's done? Make sure you see a >message similar to: > >syncing disks.. 4 4 done. > >before you actually power off. This message is issued by `halt' and if all he's doing is `shutdown now', he'll wait *forever* before seeing it! ;-) >> I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.1 and am shutting down using the >> "shutdown now" command as directed in the handbook. --don