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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:25:52 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Wishlist item: booting single user mode
Message-ID:  <19980610232552.A25215@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610215928.17242B-100000@hub.org>; from "The Hermit Hacker" on Wed Jun 10 22:03:44 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610215928.17242B-100000@hub.org>

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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

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