Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV!fsfacca From: fsfacca@LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Single user mode. Message-ID: <8906061721.AA21541@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov> Date: 6 Jun 89 17:21:01 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 57 Andrea Malagoli writes: > I have a Personal Iris and I have the following problem. > I have nsf running and I usually hard mount some disks > wich belong to other servers. I have installed the 3.1C > upgrade (it was 3.1B before) and something got changed [ stuff deleted ] > Is there a way to reboot the machine in a standalone > form, without starting the nfs daemons? Is there a > solution to my problem. For example, on a Sun3 there > is an option that allows to bring the system up in > "single user mode". I have not been able to figure > out how to do it on the Personal Iris. A couple of things that may (or may not) help. - to boot the machine without starting the NFS daemons, try doing "/etc/chkconfig nfs no" "/etc/reboot" when you want NFS to come back, you'll have to do /etc/chkconfig nfs yes - to boot the machine in single user mode, you can edit the /etc/inittab file and change the line which reads: is:2:initdefault to is:s:initdefault which will cause the machine to always come up in single user mode. Or, just do "/etc/init s" to bring the system down to Single User Mode. Also, please follow up with what has changed in NFS. We are using it pretty extensively, and I am interested in any anomolies which show up in NFS. By the way, since we are talking about NFS, I found out an interesting thing last week. We started using a name server to resolve addresses and several of the machines in /etc/exports are on a different network than the local machine. When the NFS part of the startup script runs, it came up with "cannot export to hostname" errors. What I needed to do was specify each hostnames full domain name, not just the alias. That's because the NFS part of the script runs before the routers. Hmmm. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Facca | phone: 216-433-8318 NASA Lewis Research Center | Cleveland, Ohio 44135 | email: fsfacca@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov -----------------------------------------------------------------------------