From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 6:12: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2B314E02 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:12:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11lYTg-0006J8-00; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:12:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA28049; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:11:51 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:11:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Group problems In-Reply-To: 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 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