telinit question

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:06 PM, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/27/2011 11:03 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>
>> Hi to all.
>>
>>
>> The Texinfo and man pages of telinit, mention both in Ubuntu 11.04 and
>> Scientific Linux 6:
>>
>> "Normally  you would use the shutdown(8) tool to halt or reboot the
>> system, or to bring it down to single-user mode".
>>
>>
>> However I couldn't find any option in shutdown command, that brings
>> the system in runlevel 1 (single user mode). Am I missing something?
>>
>>
>
> Running shutdown with no options brings the system to runlevel 1.
>
> $ shutdown --help
> ...
> The system is brought down into maintenance (single-user) mode by default,
> you
> can change this with either the -r or -h option which specify a reboot or
> system halt respectively.  The -h option can be further modified with -H or
> -P
> to specify whether to halt the system, or to power it off afterwards.  The
> default is left up to the shutdown scripts.


Thanks!


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