On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:58:54PM -0400, Carole Womeldorf wrote: > Hi Ben - thanks for joining in. But I don't understand what you are > suggesting here - When I boot up I see two options - <F2> to get me into > set up and Esc to get me into "grub" after that it starts up all the > deamons and goes straight to a GUI with a login window. At that window > there appears to be a choice "failsafe" which looks like a simple log in > but when that comes up for some reason I can't type anything in. What > is and how do I get to the lilo prompt? Or how do I shut a bunch of > daemons down?
Ahhh...sorry, I didn't even think about the fact that you might be using GRUB. I've never used GRUB but, looking through the docs on the homepage, looks like you should have a "command-line" menu option in the GRUB menu. If so, it will drop you into GRUB's command line mode. If you know what to type to boot your Redhat OS, you can append "single" to it to get into single user mode. I think you can look in your GRUB config file to see what you would need to type at the GRUB prompt. Perhaps someone who is more familiar with GRUB could help out here. You say that the "failsafe" choice comes after all the daemons start? I'm not sure what that's about, but the kernel has already been booted at that point, to it isn't going to do you any good. To shut daemons down (this is for RH 7.1 and I think it would probably work for 7.2 as well), you can use the "service" command. To see what services (daemons) are running, you can run $ service --status-all To stop one, # service sendmail stop You can also change directories to /etc/init.d and run, for example: # ./sendmail status or # ./sendmail stop or # ./sendmail start etc. However, for your purposes, I really think you need to be in single user mode. I hope this gives you something to go on, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 Must be getting close to town -- we're hitting more people. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
