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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
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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