Re: newbie - single-user-mode

1998-04-06 Thread James Youngman
"Daniel" == Daniel Goldin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel What exactly is single-user-mode and how to I use it? The main point about single-user-mode is that it basically goes 90% of the way to undoing the boot process. All system daemons are stopped, and the system provides a shell just

Re: newbie - single-user-mode

1998-04-04 Thread Steve Hazelett
Daniel, Single user mode is a mode where all your services (sendmail,cron,nfs,etc...) are stopped and the system is in what I like to refer to as minimum operation mode. It normally is used for system maintance by root and no other users can log on at that time. When you enter single user