shutdown not shutting down :-(

[Glenn Dawson]

At 02:23 AM 2/19/2006, Matias Surdi wrote:
>Hi, Linux-user, FreeBSD-newbie posting here.
>
>I've a recent installation of FreeBSD, and when I do
>
># shutdown now
>
>It starts the shutdown process but it hangs promting for the shell path.
>
>I think that this could be something related to the order in which 
>partitions are unmounted.
>
>Any idea?

that's exactly what shutdown now is supposed to do.

If you want the machine to power off you can use
shutdown -p now
or if you just want it to halt but stay on you can use
shutdown -h now

the shutdown(8) man page has all the details.

-Glenn


>Thanks.
>
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