From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 11: 0: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.0.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD5437B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:59:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026DA981F4 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:59:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from cft@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g1IIxw320843 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:59:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:59:58 -0500 From: Carl Tucker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping to single user Message-ID: <20020218185958.GA18711@panix.com> References: <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Sandro Mancuso wrote: > Hi, not long ago, someone mentioned “dropping to single user” and I was > wondering how. I did get an answer, however I’ve “misplaced” that > reply, so I’m wondering if anyone can refresh my memory… regarding how > to do such a thing without having to reboot after doing make buildworld, > and building/installing the generic kernel (having to do with upgrading > from 4.4 to 4.5stable… etc) 'shutdown now' will drop you into single-user mode without unmounting all your filesystems or rebooting. After you install a new kernel, though, I would think you need to do an actual reboot to get it in memory. I could be wrong. -- Carl Tucker cft@panix.com flestrin@worldnet.att.net tuckercl@phnsy.navy.mil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message