Best way to shutdown pfsense
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I shut down pfsense and my computer every night. I was wondering if it is better to do '6) Halt system' or do an '8) Shell' + 'shutdown -h now'.
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Halt from WebGUI or option 6 from console or shutdown -h now… I don't know if it really makes any difference as long as it's shutdown cleanly.
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you can ssh <domain>@ipaddress
select option 5 (Reboot system)
or
option 6 for Halt system</domain> -
Out of just pure curiosity - why?
What is pfsense running on? As a vm on your computer? Its own hardware. Are you shutting it down because of concerns of power use, or security? I assume shutting down pfsense shutdown your internet. So stuff that would normally happen after hours now can not, like patch downloads, antivirus uploads, backups to cloud services, etc..
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Hi.
I shut down pfsense and my computer every night. I was wondering if it is better to do '6) Halt system' or do an '8) Shell' + 'shutdown -h now'.
The option 6) is equivalent to execute from shell like root:
/etc/rc.initial.haltRegards.
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The reason I was wondering about this is after I do a (6 halt system, it seems to shut down, locking me out of the terminal. However, I sometimes begin to hear an alarm I wrote continuously go off warning me that snort is not running. It seemed like OpenBSD was still up. I didn't want to just power off the controller it is running on without properly bringing down OpenBSD first.
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Hi.
@battles:The reason I was wondering about this is after I do a (6 halt system, it seems to shut down, locking me out of the terminal. However, I sometimes begin to hear an alarm I wrote continuously go off warning me that snort is not running. It seemed like OpenBSD was still up. I didn't want to just power off the controller it is running on without properly bringing down OpenBSD first.
The best way to shutdown pfSense from shell is executing /etc/rc.initial.halt
Unattended way:
yes | /etc/rc.initial.haltRegards.
