On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:46:53PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, dieter...@engineer.com wrote: > >>Suggestion 2: The kernel may not have an official flag for single >>vs multi user mode but you can fake it. Try something like >>"pgrep syslogd". If syslogd is running assume multiuser mode. If >>syslogd is not running assume single user mode. > >Another option: kern.hostid is set nonzero pretty early in the rc >scripts.
Same as getty(8). That also will not be running in SU and in most cases is a clear indication that nothing else is running unless you have a remote only machine without a console in which you have purposely disabled getty(8). -- Regards, J. Hellenthal WWJD
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