On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:01 AM, John Davidorff Pell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> P.S. You should generally explain what sort of system you are on. Mac OS X > is the only system that I know of that calls something "single user mode". > On linux, the closest thing is "run level 0". However, its not a very good > description of Mac OS X's single-user mode because Mac OS X is *much* more > dependent on system services which have to be started (or, rather, > registered) first. Possibly linux picked the terminology up from Apple, but I quote from INIT(8), Linux System Administrator's Manual, 18 April 2003: > runlevel 1 is used to get the system down into single user mode also, > Runlevel 0 is used to halt the system -- Aaron Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users