Qustion

How can I reboot or shutdown BSD (FreeBSD) based system? (Command shutdown -h 0 is not working.)

Answer

FreeBSD or other BSD uses the shutdown or halt command to shutdown system. To reboot FreeBSD/BSD box use reboot command.

One he problem I met when trying to install FreeBSD (7.2-RC) was quite frustrating.

You created a disk (dvd or cd, whatever), tried on several machines and checked that there was no problem reading it with os installed.

When  I tried to install FreeBSD with cd-rom, it WAS saying "Boot from CD / DVD:". Two minutes later, however, it was still saying "Boot from CD / DVD:" and after a while, it was booted from the hard disk. I tried several times, no difference.

Problem description

After logged in or went to " System -> Preferences -> Appearance", you saw the system give the following error message:

Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager.

There are several solutions that worked for several guys, such as:

If you want resize your photos to put them on your blog or website. As you know, you can’t upload your photos on a webpage with the highest resolution because a web gallery became inaccessible and too slow to load. Then maybe you have a folder containing every photos of you holidays and you want resize it at 768 of width maintaining original aspect ratio. To make a resize there are many tools but here I suggest a command line tool called “mogrify”. This tool will be installed with ImageMagick Libraries, so all you have to do is installing ImageMagick.