In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Colin> In Debian, runlevels 2-5 are identical by default, and
> Colin> configuring any differences is left up to the system
> Colin> administrator.
>
>What does single user mode mean?
>I thought if I typed in "telinit s" it should kill off a number of
>daemons before entering single user mode.
Don't do that.
>It doesn't. It just goes straight to single user mode.
Right. "man init":
Runlevels 0, 1, and 6 are reserved. Runlevel 0 is used to
halt the system, runlevel 6 is used to reboot the system,
and runlevel 1 is used to get the system down into single
user mode. Runlevel S is not really meant to be used
directly, but more for the scripts that are executed when
entering runlevel 1. For more information on this, see the
manpages for shutdown(8) and inittab(5).
>Do I smell a bug somewhere here? Or is this normal behaviour?
It's the way it's supposed to be.
Mike.
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