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Subject: Re: shutdown going to runlevel 1?
From: Daniel Jacobowitz (drowfalse.org)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 15:48:51 CDT

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:20:07PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> Does anybody know why a:
>
> [rootpandora /root]# shutdown 5
>
> Broadcast message from root (tty1) Mon Jul 31 17:11:42 2000...
>
> The system is going DOWN to maintenance mode in 5 minutes !!
>
>
> goes to runlevel 1 (maintenance mode) instead of 6?
>
> I get the same with "shutdown now". If I use the -h or -r options,
> I correctly get to halt or reboot.

Perhaps because that's what the shutdown command is defined to do?

From the Linux man page:
       asking it to change the runlevel. Runlevel 0 is used to
       halt the system, runlevel 6 is used to reboot the system,
       and runlevel 1 is used to put to system into a state where
       administrative tasks can be performed; this is the default
       if neither the -h or -r flag is given to shutdown.

From Solaris:
     By default, shutdown brings the system to a state where only
     the console has access to the operating system. This state
     is called single-user.

This is -really- off topic for this list.

Dan

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