Warning was not properly dismounted/

[Thierry.Herbelot@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hello

> hi i have two short Questions;
> 1) im running FREEBSD2.2.7 I  have a root password.Now how do i sign in
> as
> root or when im logged in as normal user how can i access root. a lot
of
> 
> commands i try keeps comming back permission denied?

the command is "su" which is documented in "man su"

> 2)When im in FREEBSD and i want to shutdown my computer i understand
> i should be using the shutdown command.When i use it it comes back
> saying
> permission denied.? and then i just type exit it puts me back in the
> login
> screen and i turn off the computer there.When i turn on the computer
> again
> as FREEBSD is booting up and going through the normal kernel i read
> somthing that says" (Warning was not properly dismounted) How can i
> prevent
> this error from happening again.
>                                                          thankYou! in
> advance
> 

As a "normal user", you can use <CTRL-ALT-DEL> key combination to cause a
normal shutdown (and all your partitions will be correctly dismounted)

	TfH
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