The bug in your system is that you don't have a /etc/inittab file. As far as I'm aware this file is always created at installation and the most you might do is edit it. Creating one from scratch is laborious and needs in-depth knowledge of exactly how you want the system to behave.
A typical Debian (Squeeze) inittab file looks like this:
I suggest you try injecting the above into your inittab at least down to the comment line "# Normally not reached" even if you don't copy the rest. That might restore some resemblance of normality.
Obviously, this whole mechanism is surrounded by security. You couldn't allow an ordinary user to use 'init' to change run levels; only root can do that. Also, why would an ordinary user want to know the runlevel of the system? If they are allowed to read inittab they certainly wouldn't be allowed to write to it. So there may be a simple explanation why 'who -r' doesn't work properly for a non-root user.
Hi,
Is there a limit to the number of symbolic links you can have?
I tried to vi the symbolic link relating to a file and got the following error:
"filename" Too many levels of symbolic links
There is only one symbolic link to one file in this case, but there are >2000 other links to... (2 Replies)
I have a problem, i dont know if its a normal behaviour or not, i can go to a lower init level, but i cant go to a higher one again, for instance i can run the command init 2 while im at init 3 and when i do who -r i find myself go down to 2 but if i type init 3 and wait im still finding myself in... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Could somebody throw some light on the below queries:
- For a run-level X, the S* scripts are executed when coming here from X-n run-level. The K* scripts are executed when coming to X runlevel from X+n runlevel.
- Does reaching to runlevel X from X-3 executes K* scritps from X-2 & X-1... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I know I'm missing something simple here.
We have about 500 zipped files in a directory which contain more zip files and within those I need to find a file without unzipping everything.
I know I can use zipinfo which I'm trying to create a for loop to go through the files and... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a simple question because I can not find the information at oracle.com
I want to buy support for OS Solaris and Servers hardware.
I need information what are the levels of support and how much they cost?
I need a help.
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I'm running rhel6 64bit. Accidentally I ran % chmod -R 777 /etc and after that I have a problem to do 'su' or 'sudo'. When I did sudo it complained that /etc/sudoers has 777 while it should be 0440. I changed that and also restored right permission for:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1966 May 19... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Currently our application is running on the server having AIX 5.3 OS.
What we intend to do is to run a shell script owned by another user and needs to be run as that particular user.
I was trying to create a shell script using the su command before running the actual script (which... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I need to change the following script ( which is good for Linux) for Solris 11
#start oracle
start on runlevel
stop on runlevel
What it should be for Solrais 11.
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Terry (2 Replies)