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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:31:22 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        James FitzGibbon <james@targetnet.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Determining multi or single user ?
Message-ID:  <20000829153122.E18862@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000828084623.C32812@targetnet.com>; from james@targetnet.com on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:46:23AM -0400
References:  <20000828084623.C32812@targetnet.com>

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* James FitzGibbon <james@targetnet.com> [000829 15:08] wrote:
> Greetings...
> 
> Is there an standard programmatic method for determining if a FreeBSD system
> is running in single or multi-user ?  Sysctl doesn't seem to have a specific
> entry, but I suspect that the value of other less-well defined sysctl values
> might allow me to infer what I need.
> 
> Any thoughts ?
> 

the kernel is not really aware of the difference between single user
mode and multiuser, an interesting hack might be to make init use
setproctitle() to indicate whether it's in single user mode or not.

does anyone know if this could cause problems?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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