From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 7:35:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecate.webcom.com (hecate.webcom.com [209.1.28.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968B314DDA for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:35:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from eresh.webcom.com (eresh.webcom.com [209.1.28.49]) by hecate.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA01923; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:35:38 -0800 Received: from [207.207.234.55] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 46538156; Wed Nov 10 07:29 PST 1999 Message-Id: <382990EE.8D74B441@echidna.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:36:14 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en]C-DIAL (WinNT; U) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Group problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had occasional troubles with selecting single user mode at boot time too (2.2.7S). I forget the exact details of how it would behave, but entering the full boot command always seems to work, in the form 0:sd(0,a)kernel -s or whatever, according to your configuration. You will notice the boot screen has near the top a line labelled "default" or something like that, followed by a command string - this string seems to get messed up if you initially make a mistake typing at the boot prompt and try again. Maybe that has something to do with the problem. Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > The Complete FreeBSD says shutdown with no options will put the system > into single user mode. So far, this hasn't worked for me. And i've had a > hard time getting it to boot into single user mode as well. I tried the > -s option during boot and it seems inconsistent. But the shutdown with no > arguments halts the system sometimes, and other times it goes into single > user. ANy idea why? > > On 10 Nov 1999, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > >shutdown has several extra features: it allows you to schedule the > >reboot for a point in the future, it writes those warnings to users' > >terminals, and it tries to get init to shut down other processes before > >it actually stops it. The last one is a good enough reason to *always* > >use shutdown in multiuser mode unless you have a good reason not to. > > > >Be well. > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -jonathon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message