From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 13:19:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5AF237B9C5 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28639; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:19:30 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id NAA18363; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:19:27 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:19:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Jon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Single User mode / Automating 'make world' and kernel config. In-Reply-To: <3974B7C7.D60B89F8@state.net> 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 > Is there anyway to invoke shutdown(8), set some kind of flag somewhere, > send something to init(8), or make an entry in /etc/rc.shutdown that > could take a system running multi-user down to single user & have it so > the console doesn't need a prompt for root's shell (the console is setup > as secure, so no password), and default to /bin/sh, which is the > multi-user root shell. I could be mistaken... but does 'Halt' do this? Sorry I'm not in front of a system to test... :) (Though I'd like to halt NT! :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message