>Number: 158807 >Category: bin >Synopsis: [patch] slightly improve shutdown(8) man page >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 11 15:30:13 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Alexander Best >Release: 9.0-CURRENT >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD otaku 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #23 r223911=11f0313-dirty: Mon Jul 11 00:20:49 CEST 2011 arundel@otaku:/usr/obj/usr/git-freebsd-head/sys/ARUNDEL amd64 >Description: While reading the shutdown(8) man page i found a couple of errors. The attached patch should take care of them. >How-To-Repeat:
>Fix: Apply the attached patch! Patch attached with submission follows: diff --git a/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 b/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 index 032c4f3..e7648d6 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 11, 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 +Executing .Nm poweroff -is equivalent of calling: +is equivalent to: .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 >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
