On 12/19/2010 06:02 PM, Lisi wrote: > So - Oh my friends be warned by me! init 1 is fine. init s is not. Paul > has > given a very clear exposition of the facts either above of below, depending > on how you thread your emails. I guess ( after reading Bob's reply) I forgot to mention, NORMALLY you do those from the ATL-F1 text login screen, where you login as ROOT... NOT from the X_windows ( gnome, kde...) my usual init commands are: # init 6 ( thats just a reboot)
# init 0 ( turn the sucker OFF) # init 1 ( bring me down to single user mode!) # init 2 ( start the X-windows & all the rest of the normal services) I used to use init S/s back in the UNIX days, and it used to mean something, probably not the same anymore.. It used to bring it down to single user & umount all file systems EXCEPT root.. but I see from the man init : -s, S, single Single user mode boot. In this mode /etc/inittab is examined and the bootup rc scripts are usually run before the single user mode shell is started. now they have "-b" -b, emergency Boot directly into a single user shell without running any other startup scripts. so, there are still multiple ways to get booted, even in single user mode.. YMMV :) > > Oh - and I ought to have learned from the elephant's child that 'satiable > curtiosity is sometimes highly undesirable. But it is probably a bit late > now for me to learn. > but you really didn't HURT anything, right? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d0e9e5b.6000...@pcartwright.com