On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:12:06 PDT, D B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > install the services .... get them configured > ...remove all booting hardware except the drive .... > then change the roots shell to /bin/false and and > remove all working shells from the OS
Hmm.. Gonna be fun the next reboot, if *anything* in /etc/rc* is still a shell script. In fact, I just checked - Solaris, AIX, IRIX, and RedHat Linux will *all* fail to get even as far as single-user mode, because in /etc/inittab we have: Solaris: fs::sysinit:/sbin/rcS sysinit AIX: brc::sysinit:/sbin/rc.boot 3 >/dev/console 2>&1 # Phase 3 of system boot IRIX: mt::sysinit:/etc/brc </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1 RedHat: si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit /sbin/rcS, /sbin/rc.boot, /etc/brc, and /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit are all shell scripts. Tru64 *will* make it as far single-user mode, but won't make it to runlevel 2 or 3: Tru64: s2:23:wait:/sbin/rc2 < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>&1 And of course, single-user mode won't be very useful without a shell for root.
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