Curt Howland hat gesagt: // Curt Howland wrote: > Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't > want to break something "just poking around"... > > How does one go into "single user" mode, then start > the multi user functions again? > > I pulled a defrag package down, but it won't run > (for blatently obvious reasons) in multi-mode. > > No need to tell me I have to do it from the console, > that much is clear. :^> >
Quick answer: RTFM telinit. A bit slower: Login as root on a console and change the runlevel to single user mode with telinit. E.g. # telinit 1 [ ... Do your sysadmin stuff ...] Go back to your favorite multiuser runlevel with e.g. # telinit 2 -- Yours <a href="http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/"> Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin >-------------< </a> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .