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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: / was not properly dismounted
Date: 8 Sep 1995 13:47:07 +0200
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Roland Jesse <jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE> wrote:
>
>When booting FreeBSD (2.0.5) I get a message which looks like:
>
>WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
>
>In which way may I dismount / ? 

Only at shutdown/reboot.

>How may I 'shutdown' the system when all users are already logged out but 
>FreeBSD only prompts for new logins ? 

Huh?  RTFM shutdown(8).
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)