From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 26 17:10: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8DB37BA7A for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA51511; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:09:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA87917; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:09:42 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003270109.SAA87917@harmony.village.org> To: Stan Brown Subject: Re: How to shutdown to single user in 4.0? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Stable List) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:46:16 EST." <200003262346.PAA05302@netcom.com> References: <200003262346.PAA05302@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:09:42 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200003262346.PAA05302@netcom.com> Stan Brown writes: : How do I _shut down_ to single user in 4.0. # kill 1 I discovered this by mistake several years ago when I typed kill 1 1 instead of kill -1 1 when restarting getties. Of course this wasn't on my personal workstation, but rather a 8 cpu machine that the entire OS group was using for development. :-(. At least I got a very detailed and explicit explanation of what I had done and why it was do bad... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message