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Is there another way of switching to single user mode except by typing

/usr/sbin/shutdown 0 ???
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belongs to your unix flavor...
on solaris "init s" would work...

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Thanks you guys. But i am running HP-Ux 11.11
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     The init utility will terminate multi-user operations and resume single-
     user mode if sent a terminate (TERM) signal, for example, ``kill -TERM
     1''.  If there are processes outstanding that are deadlocked (because of
.. this is an output from FreeBSD's init(8) man page... check out your HP-UX init man page, maybe there is the 'secret'
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With HP-UX, use the shutdown command. The other ways bypass the shutdown scripts.
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