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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 2002 12:53:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Richard Glidden <richard@glidden.org>
To:        Nick Webb <nickw@uidaho.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Stuipd init question
Message-ID:  <20020309124940.K19258-100000@charon.acheron.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <1015694491.295.5.camel@gizmo.platy3.org>

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On 9 Mar 2002, Nick Webb wrote:

> Sometimes I bring my system down to single user mode (init 1), but I
> can't find a command to bring it back to multi-user mode without
> rebooting.  I know it must be there somewhere . . . in Linux it would be
> init 5/6, init 3 for Solaris, etc.

"shutdown now" will take you to single-user nicely (you can use other
options to warn users that you are going to single-user, schedule a time,
etc.  "man shutdown").

Typing CTRL-D from single-user will return you to multi-user.

-- 
Richard Glidden
richard@glidden.org


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