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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

9788.0. "Single user mode won't boot" by RECV::CRONIN (Wait a min. MR. I didnt even kiss her) Mon May 12 1997 16:07

    Hi,
    
         I need to shut a Dec 2000 to single user mode but it won't work
    anymore.  I tried "shutdown now" and also tried >>> boot -fl S
    
         The machine starts to boot into single user mode and then it looks
    like the INIT process encounters the /usr/new/tcsh from somewhere and 
    the system kicks into run level 3.
    
         Anyone ran into this problem before?  Know how to fix it?
    
    Thanks

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
9788.1	How about init s?	NNTPD::"[email protected]"	Brian Haley	`Mon May 12 1997 17:43`	10
	Hi, The two methods you mentioned should have worked, the only other I can think of is "init s". Has anything changed recently on the machine (firmware, OS, ...) that could have caused this, or have any "customizations" been made to /etc/inittab? -Brian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
9788.2	found the problem	RECV::CRONIN	Wait a min. MR. I didnt even kiss her	`Mon May 12 1997 17:52`	2
	Never mind...the tsch was being invoked from profile of the root account.