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'
Hi all,
why "vi" acts differently is single user mode?
Does anyone help ?
I am using "x" to delete and it keeps messing up.
Please help
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Well back at work and back to crashing systems again :-)
Does anyone know where I can find some decent information on single user mode? I need to be able to fix a few things. Don't know if it's possible in single user mode but I need to fix the "etc/vfstab" mainly I re-wrote it to... (2 Replies)
Just got a solaris 8 blade 150 box with no users, only a root account. no one seems to know the password. I'd like to add one user. So I booted into single user mode via cdrom and added one. Can't seem to login using the new account, though. Here's what I'm using:
# useradd -d /tmp/"user" -m... (1 Reply)
hello ppl, someone must be able to help with this --> I have an old NCR tower 32 with an ADDS terminal running a unix version 020102 (Im not sure if thats correct but its unix for sure). I have no user names and no passwords and need to login to read a tape. Is there any way to do that? I hear... (3 Replies)
Hi as per the article given.
Boot Linux Grub Into Single User Mode
I m modifying the boot entry
grub edit> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet Singleand then booting from it by pressing b.
However the machine is getting booted into runlevel 5.
if the... (2 Replies)
Hi all
I am new on sun OS. I have have little experience on linux.
The Story start from this point:
I want to put some script on start-up the terminal, but I cant do that. my shell was sh and I tried so much to find way to do that. at last someone said to me change your shell to bash. I ask how... (4 Replies)
Dear All
I am trying to install my os as :
ok>boot cdrom - install
but receiving the following :
"IDprom checksum error
getexecname() failed
/sbin/rcS /etc/vfstab cannot create
INIT:failed write utmpx enrty
INIT:single user mode
INIT:execle of /etc/sulogin failed
Enter run level"
Can you... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
splashy
SPLASHY(1) Splashy POSIX boot splash system SPLASHY(1)NAME
Splashy - a user-mode, POSIX and LSB compliant, boot splashing system for UNIX.
SYNOPSIS
splashy { boot | shutdown | test | preview }
splashy_chvt { TTY_NUMBER }
DESCRIPTION
Splashy displays an image and a progress bar at boot time. When called as splashy_chvt, it allows the same functionality as the UNIX
command chvt.
OPTIONS
boot Does boot sequence. See EXAMPLES.
shutdown
Does shutdown sequence. See EXAMPLES.
test, preview
Use to test splashy without having to reboot the system. this shows a progressbar continuously moving as well as the current image
for the currently selected theme. See EXAMPLES.
EXAMPLES
"/sbin/splashy test"
Used to test splashy. Useful for testing new themes.
"/sbin/splashy boot"
Used when booting your system. This is run automatically by a initrc script during boot.
"/sbin/splashy shutdown"
Similar in spirit to boot, but run during shutdown. This is run automatically by a initrc script during shutdown.
FILES
/etc/splashy/config.xml
Main configuration. defines how splashy should be setup.
/etc/splashy/themes/default/config.xml
Default theme. defines how the images displayed by splashy should be setup, their location and other theme-related variables.
NOTES
To use splashy as chvt, make a symbolic link from splashy's location to a new path. i.e.: cd /sbin; ln -s splashy splashy_chvt
SEE ALSO splashy_config(1), splashy_update(1), splashy-config.xml(5), splashy-theme.xml(5)AUTHORS
Luis Mondesi <lemsx1@gmail.com>
perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 SPLASHY(1)