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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: How do you boot Interactive's SysV in single user mode???
Message-ID: <85C5YTA@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 19:59:04 GMT
References: <26049@bellcore.bellcore.com> <brando.650761253@uicslsb.csl.uiuc.edu> <1990Aug16.160941.17784@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1990Aug16.160941.17784@ddsw1.MCS.COM> nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) writes:
> A more elegant solution(?) might be
> to edit the binary /unix, changing the text string /etc/inittab to
> something else; and saving the edited /unix under a different name.

You'd have to change the "/etc/init", then in init itself change
"/etc/inittab". Easier would be to have a prompt in /etc/rc with a timeout
(using the hallowed "(sleep 5; kill $$)&" hack, or something better)
that asked if you want to go to single-user mode. I'll try that.
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