From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 3:29:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.arcor.net (mail.arcor.net [145.253.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F8214C8D for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 03:29:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Joachim.Jaeckel@arcor.net) Received: from slz-01-hub01.cni.net (slz-01-hub01.cni.net [145.254.30.25]) by mail.arcor.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id MAA11510 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:25:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by slz-01-hub01.cni.net(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2 (600.1 3-26-1998)) id C12567A7.003998D0 ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:29:06 +0200 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ARCOR From: Joachim.Jaeckel@arcor.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <412567A7.002D01FB.00@slz-01-hub01.cni.net> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:29:37 +0100 Subject: multiuser -> singleuser -> multiuser switch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, how could I turn the running system into singleuser state? (It seems that *kill -HUP 1* doesn't work and shutdown -k leaves the system in multiuser state). And how could I bring the system back into multiuser again, even if I used *shutdown -k* (do I've to reboot, or is there another way?) Does *cron* still work in singleuser state and how could I inform samba-users of this machine, that the system is going to *nologin* or *singleuser*? Sorry for this bunch of questions, but I ask this, because I'd like to install a backup-script for the most important data of a server which offers mainly samba-file-share-services and I would like to make the backup of the data when no one else is on the system. Thanks in advance, Joachim.Jaeckel@arcor.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message