> > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 04:48, Chuck Shirley wrote: > > As it > > stands, if I need single user mode, I reboot, and tell lilo. > > What does... > > init 1 > > ...do for you? >
Unfortunately it does mostly the same. The problem is, init s or init 1 do not kill the shell that is currently running on console but still start yet another instance of (single user) shell. So now you have two shells fighting for console input. There are more problems as single script does as the first thing 'kill -9 -1' thus effectively shooting itself in the foot. At least it should ... I'll get a look when time permits. About init s - documentation discourages its usage and it is correct because none shutdown script is run. Still it _must_ kill everything ... and it currently does not do it. -andrej
