From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 18:27:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.carracing.com (mail.carracing.com [12.24.160.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568FF37B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:27:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bill@localhost) by mail.carracing.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA19796 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:27:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:27:21 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Desjardins To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: single user mode Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I checked the man pages and archives but could not find the answer I was looking for. I have jsut recently picked up some work admin'ing some remote freebsd boxes which are running 4.0-release. I want to bring these up to -STABLE, but they are located 3000 miles away, so re-booting into single user mode is hardly an option since the people I am working with know nothing about bsd. The question I have is how can I take these machines from multiuser to single user mode via a shutdown without dropping the network? is there a way to drop to single user mode from multi without re-booting? I assume from there I can safely installworld and finish up with a kernel build and reboot from there. If thats not possible, what need I be concerned about doing an installworld in multi-user? As a side question, how would you go from single-user back to multi without re-booting (if possible) and how would the security level play in the equation? (just curious) Regards, Bill Desjardins -- Bill Desjardins - bill@carracing.com - (USA) 305.205.8644 Unix/Network Consulting - perl/mod_perl/SQL development http://www.CarRacing.com - Powered by FreeBSD/mod_perl http://www.FreeBSD.org - The Best OS Money can't buy f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message