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Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

Eric Harvill_1 — Mon, 14 May 2001 11:07:01 GMT

Is there a startup config file that controls whether or not the OS boots into singleuser or multiuser mode in HP 11i? Thanks..

Eric

Re: Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 14 May 2001 11:33:45 GMT

Hi Eric:

The run level associated with the 'initdefault' entry in /etc/inittab should specify the desired run level at boot time. See man (1m) 'init' for more details.

...JRF...

Re: Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

Eric Harvill_1 — Mon, 14 May 2001 12:11:51 GMT

I had looked at that already. It is set for 3 -- init:3:initdefault:. Any other ideas?

Re: Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

Vincent Stedema — Mon, 14 May 2001 12:26:21 GMT

Is the path to the root shell /sbin/sh? Or have you modified it?

Your system might stop booting because it cannot access the root shell due to a filesystem not having been mounted yet.

Vincent

Re: Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

Mark Vollmers — Mon, 14 May 2001 12:48:22 GMT

The /etc/inittab defines what run level the server boots to. level s is single user and level 3 is for NFS (level 2 is multi-user, but level 3 includes level 2). The server will automatically boot to the default in the inittab. You normally go to single user by interrupting the boot process. Hope this helps.

Mark

Re: Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 14 May 2001 12:52:02 GMT

Hi Eric:

Does /etc/rc.log show that the startup sequence has been exercised?

...JRF...

Re: Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

Vincenzo Restuccia — Mon, 14 May 2001 13:12:55 GMT

Bad shell for root ?

Re: Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

Eric Harvill_1 — Mon, 14 May 2001 16:46:10 GMT

Vincent, thanks for the help! My manager (I know) changed the root shell to ksh. I've heard of this issue before, but hadn't thought about looking at the passwd file. Thanks again..

Eric

Re: Booting in multi/singleuser mode?

Dave van Nierop — Tue, 15 May 2001 10:32:35 GMT

Eric,

After reading your response to Vincent viz. bad shell in /etc/passwd, check out DOC ID KBRC00000408 titled "How can all commands be recorded and viewed" to set the K - recall command history. This may have been what your Manager was looking for by setting the default root shell to ksh.

- Dave