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 -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
