single user mode

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
1

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

/usr/sbin/shutdown 0 ???

:rolleyes:

2

belongs to your unix flavor...
on solaris "init s" would work...

gP

3

On AIX :
telinit s

Greetz,

Eric

4

Thanks you guys. But i am running HP-Ux 11.11

5 
     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' :confused:

6

With HP-UX, use the shutdown command. The other ways bypass the shutdown scripts.