For People New to Both FreeBSD and UNIX®
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## For People New to Both FreeBSD and UNIX®
Congratulations on installing FreeBSD! This introduction is for people new to both FreeBSD and UNIX—so it starts with basics. It assumes you are using version 2.0.5 or later of FreeBSD as distributed by FreeBSD.org, your system (for now) has a single user (you)—and you are probably pretty good with DOS/Windows or OS/2.

### Annelise Anderson

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Congratulations on installing FreeBSD! This introduction is for people new to both FreeBSD and UNIX®—so it starts with basics. It assumes you are using version 2.0.5 or later of FreeBSD as distributed by FreeBSD.org, your system (for now) has a single user (you)—and you are probably pretty good with DOS/Windows® or OS/2®.

## 1. Logging in and Getting Out

Log in (when you see `login:`) as a user you created during installation or as `root`. (Your FreeBSD installation will already have an account for `root`; who can go anywhere and do anything, including deleting essential files, so be careful!) The symbols `%` and `#` in the following stand for the prompt (yours may be different), with `%` indicating an ordinary user and `#` indicating `root`.

To log out (and get a new `login:` prompt) type

`#` `exit`

as often as necessary. Yes, press enter after commands, and remember that UNIX® is case-sensitive—`exit`, not `EXIT`.

To shut down the machine type

`#` `/sbin/shutdown -h now`

Or to reboot type

`#` `/sbin/shutdown -r now`

or

`#` `/sbin/reboot`

You can also reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Give it a little time to do its work. This is equivalent to `/sbin/reboot` in recent releases of FreeBSD and is much, much better than hitting the reset button. You do not want to have to reinstall this thing, do you?

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