Thanks very much for the explanation. I guess that explains why I can't Ctrl-C 
and Ctrl-Z working in single user mode. I just thought that, it should work 
in all runlevels as this is the normal behaviour you'll see in all distros. 
Maybe, they patch it to enable job control, I guess !!

Thanks again.

Kevin

On Saturday 20 January 2007 01:34, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Kevin Williams wrote:
> > 1)  Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z do not work while in single user mode. But these
> > key combinations do work in other runlevels
>
> This is simply not supposed to work.
>
> In single user mode, the sulogin program starts a shell directly on
> /dev/console. Job control (with keys such as Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z) works only
> when a shell has a controlling tty, but /dev/console in the kernel is
> deliberately made so that it can never be a controlling tty for anything.
>
> > 2)  Ctrl+Alt+Fn combination doesn't work when the kdm login screen is
> >      displayed !! The only way I can use Ctrl+Alt+Fn is either to login
> > into kde or select "Console Login" from the drop down menu and thus
> > terminate kdm session. While in other runlevels, these key combinations
> > work without a hitch !
>
> Sorry, I don't use KDM and thus can't help. There was a bug in
> xorg-server-1.1.0 (fixed in 1.1.1) that sometimes prevented Ctrl+Alt+Fn
> from working, but what you describe doesn't look like this bug.
>
> --
> Alexander E. Patrakov
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