From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 16 18:47:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582E516A415 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:47:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398AE43D8A for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:47:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from [192.168.2.4] (chello084114134105.3.15.vie.surfer.at [84.114.134.105]) by thing.verysmall.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1062286D for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:46:02 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <450C46A8.3080908@verysmall.org> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:47:04 +0200 From: "pobox@verysmall.org" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:47:22 -0000 Hello, could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a single user mode on a remote server. I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to reboot into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'. The only solution I found so far is to do 'shutdown -r now' and when the server boots to login with ssh and do 'shutdown now' - which should drop it to single user mode. I can ask the support at the hosting location to reboot in single user mode, but I do not know if I will have ssh then? Alternatively I can ask them to do the last few steps. Thank you for your advises, Iv. --