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Date:      Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:38:39 -0400
From:      "J. Hellenthal" <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, dieterbsd@engineer.com
Subject:   Re: Add SUM sysctl
Message-ID:  <20110416233839.GA72223@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1104161634150.5936@wonkity.com>
References:  <8CDCA9824BFE47E-176C-A720@web-mmc-d04.sysops.aol.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1104161634150.5936@wonkity.com>

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On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:46:53PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, dieterbsd@engineer.com wrote:
>
>>Suggestion 2:  The kernel may not have an official flag for single
>>vs multi user mode but you can fake it.  Try something like
>>"pgrep syslogd".  If syslogd is running assume multiuser mode.  If
>>syslogd is not running assume single user mode.
>
>Another option: kern.hostid is set nonzero pretty early in the rc
>scripts.

Same as getty(8). That also will not be running in SU and in most cases
is a clear indication that nothing else is running unless you have a
remote only machine without a console in which you have purposely
disabled getty(8).

--=20

 Regards,
 J. Hellenthal
 WWJD


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