From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 10 21:28:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15508 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15491 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:28:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25276; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:25:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980610232552.A25215@emsphone.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:25:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wishlist item: booting single user mode References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.8i In-Reply-To: ; from "The Hermit Hacker" on Wed Jun 10 22:03:44 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 10), The Hermit Hacker said: > > I work as systems administrator at our local university, inpretty > much a pure Solaris environment (I'm finally getting my first FreeBSD box > in as an 'interim solution' to a DHCP problem)... > > One 'feature' of solaris that I really like is when it boots into > single user mode...it asks you what shell you want to use, defaulting to > /bin/sh ... > > ...what would it take to add that into FreeBSD? Isn't it already in there? When I boot -s, or run "shutdown now", I get the prompt Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: _ both on 2.2.6 and 3.0. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message