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| author | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-07-14 02:41:45 +0000 |
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| committer | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-07-14 02:41:45 +0000 |
| commit | 15b823db8458c616eaed587d1939f2fe98eaa8a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 693a8b61dbf6feaa1630209ca416066084982c68 /sbin/shutdown | |
| parent | ced2dc53dd978014d70cc329aa2e8a1876204390 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-15b823db8458c616eaed587d1939f2fe98eaa8a2.zip FreeBSD-src-15b823db8458c616eaed587d1939f2fe98eaa8a2.tar.gz | |
Improvements to the shutdown(8) manual.
PR: 158807
Submitted by: arundel
MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/shutdown')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 | 26 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 b/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 index 032c4f3..c3de61f 100644 --- a/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 +++ b/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)shutdown.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 30, 2010 +.Dd July 13, 2011 .Dt SHUTDOWN 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -83,20 +83,20 @@ If one of the .Fl p or .Fl r -is specified, +options are specified, .Nm will execute .Xr halt 8 or .Xr reboot 8 -instead of sending signal to +instead of sending a signal to .Xr init 8 . .It Fl n If the .Fl o -is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing +option is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing .Fl n -option to +to .Xr halt 8 or .Xr reboot 8 . @@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ This option should probably not be used. is the time at which .Nm will bring the system down and -may be the word +may be the case-insensitive word .Ar now (indicating an immediate shutdown) or -specify a future time in one of two formats: +a future time in one of two formats: .Ar +number , or .Ar yymmddhhmm , @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ exits. .Pp At shutdown time a message is written to the system log, containing the time of shutdown, the person who initiated the shutdown and the reason. -Corresponding signal is then sent to +The corresponding signal is then sent to .Xr init 8 to respectively halt, reboot or bring the system down to single-user state (depending on the above options). @@ -176,16 +176,18 @@ utility will place the system into single user mode at the .Ar time specified. .Pp -Calling utility as -.Nm poweroff -is equivalent of calling: +Calling +.Dq Nm poweroff +is equivalent to running: .Bd -literal -offset indent shutdown -p now .Ed .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /var/run/nologin -compact .It Pa /var/run/nologin -tells login not to let anyone log in +tells +.Xr login 1 +not to let anyone log in .El .Sh COMPATIBILITY The hours and minutes in the second time format may be separated by |
