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Old 11-27-2002
To boot into single-user mode on a Mac with OSX, hold down Command-S while it's starting. It'll drop you into single-user, read-only. Following the directions it prints out - I believe you can run:
"/sbin/fsck -y / && /sbin/mount -wu /"
at the console...

I haven't been able to get X working from the console, but Aqua is much better anyways...

And most of the time, I'd rather work from Terminal.app anyways... It's interesting how Macs store their applications... they're not executable files at all, they're directories!
 
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xgridctl(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       xgridctl(8)

NAME
xgridctl -- Xgrid Daemon Control Interface SYNOPSIS
xgridctl [target] action OPTIONS
The optional target is one of the following: controller perform the action for the xgricontrollerd daemon agent perform the action for the xgridagentd daemon The action is one of the following: status print status for the chosen daemon, or print status for all daemons if no target is specified start enable and start the chosen daemon, or start all enabled daemons if no target is specified stop disable and stop the chosen daemon, or stop all daemons if no target is specified restart stop and then enable and start the chosen daemon, or stop all daemons and then start all enabled daemons if no target is speci- fied RETURN VALUES
0 completed succesfully 1 an error occurred FILES
/usr/libexec/xgrid/xgridagentd agent daemon /usr/libexec/xgrid/xgridcontrollerd controller daemon /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xgridagentd.plist agent launchd control file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xgridcontrollerd.plist controller launchd control file EXAMPLES
Print status of agent and controller: $ xgridctl status Start the controller and set it to run at startup: $ xgridctl controller start Stop the agent and set it to not run at startup: $ xgridctl agent stop SEE ALSO
xgrid(1) launchd(8) HISTORY
This program was first introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger". It was inspired by apachectl(8). The "on" and "off" actions were deprecated in Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". BUGS
Bug reports can be sent to bugreport.apple.com Mac OS X April 2, 2009 Mac OS X