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- Subject: Re: A bug in init? (booting single-user)
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- From: bcs@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Brent Summers)
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 12:33:44 +1300
- References: <janet.721386869@dunnart>
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- In article <janet.721386869@dunnart> janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson) writes:
- |[...During single-user boot...]
- |If I type the root password, it runs a single-user shell, as it should.
- |If I type some rubbish, it repeats the prompt, as it should.
- |But if I just press Return, it does a multi-user startup!
-
- Yes.
-
- |If it isn't a bug, what's the explanation?
-
- That is what happens.
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- This is, as far as I can recall, the behaviour I've seen on every other
- brand of U**x I've played with: HP-UX, SCO, Ultrix, Mach 2.x (NeXT OS),...
- Why should SunOS be any different?
-
- |Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
-
- No - should there be?
-
- Regards,
-
- --
- +-Brent Summers, U of Waikato, NZ------------------------------------------+
- | Programming: Navigating through an infinity of programs in search of |
- | one of a much smaller infinity of reasonable solutions. Blindfolded. |
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