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Date:      Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:59:58 -0500
From:      Carl Tucker <cft@panix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dropping to single user
Message-ID:  <20020218185958.GA18711@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows>
References:  <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows>

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Sandro Mancuso wrote:
> Hi, not long ago, someone mentioned “dropping to single user” and I was
> wondering how.  I did get an answer, however I’ve “misplaced” that
> reply, so I’m wondering if anyone can refresh my memory… regarding how
> to do such a thing without having to reboot after doing make buildworld,
> and building/installing the generic kernel (having to do with upgrading
> from 4.4 to 4.5stable… etc)

'shutdown now' will drop you into single-user mode without unmounting
all your filesystems or rebooting.  After you install a new kernel, though,
I would think you need to do an actual reboot to get it in memory.
I could be wrong.

-- 
Carl Tucker
cft@panix.com
flestrin@worldnet.att.net
tuckercl@phnsy.navy.mil

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