Kevin Williams wrote:
> 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 !!

They won't. The problem is that many daemon processes use /dev/console as a 
last-resort output device. They really don't want to acquire a controlling 
tty. If you really want a tty, try typing this as your first command in 
single-user mode:

exec /bin/bash </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1

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