From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 17:14:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA11482 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:14:39 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA11477 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:14:34 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA18647; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 18:10:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511080110.SAA18647@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD Questions: starting single-user, and modem lights prog? To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 18:10:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Donald Burr" at Nov 7, 95 02:54:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1162 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 1. How do you start the system single-user, from the boot prompt? > In Linux, you could give a commnad (using LILO boot loader) like: > single > that would get you into single-user mode. Is there a FreeBSD > equivalent? I couldn't seem to find any documentation on this. Hit "? " at the boot prompt. The answer is "kernel -s " > 2. Is there a program that can display the status of your modem > (the most essential ones are: OH - if the modem is off-hook (i.e. > dialed out) or not, RD - data being received, TR - data being > sent)? I have a internal modem, and this would be a useful thing; > it's probably also useful for the laptop/PCMCIA crowd. I haven't seen one; typically, you want one based on a time delay and statistics if you wanted flashing lights. This would need another interface. I saw an X app to do this once, but I don't know if they hacked their kernel to get the info or not. I suspect it was part of the app, and it knew when it dis a read or a write. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.