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From: sunloop!oconnor!porsche!miker@central.sun.com (Mike Raffety)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: "Best Way" to inhibit halting of workstations
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Date: 6 May 89 17:15:50 GMT
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Original-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 09:38:22 CDT
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> I'm not sure this is a good idea.  Doesn't /bin/login try to write a
> record into /etc/utmp, and so on?  If you're booting single-user, then
> the root partition hasn't been fsck'd yet, and if it's hosed, you
> _don't_ want to go writing on it before you fsck it.

Well, /etc/rc.boot is already doing a "> /etc/mtab" to create an empty
file in your root, and mount (since root is mounted r/w on 3.x) is marking
the filesystem as mounted.  A write to /etc/utmp seems fairly harmless.
Indeed, one might consider it a feature (;-) to have a record of
single-user boots.