Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:59:58 -0500 From: Carl Tucker <cft@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping to single user Message-ID: <20020218185958.GA18711@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows> References: <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows>
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Sandro Mancuso wrote: > Hi, not long ago, someone mentioned “dropping to single user” and I was > wondering how. I did get an answer, however I’ve “misplaced” that > reply, so I’m wondering if anyone can refresh my memory… regarding how > to do such a thing without having to reboot after doing make buildworld, > and building/installing the generic kernel (having to do with upgrading > from 4.4 to 4.5stable… etc) 'shutdown now' will drop you into single-user mode without unmounting all your filesystems or rebooting. After you install a new kernel, though, I would think you need to do an actual reboot to get it in memory. I could be wrong. -- Carl Tucker cft@panix.com flestrin@worldnet.att.net tuckercl@phnsy.navy.mil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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