Solaris 8 : Reboot to single user mode

One I recently forgot and had to look up….

Sometimes you may want to reboot into single user mode rather than
using shutdown or init. This is because sometimes the vold daemon may
remain after the shutdown, but you may not want it running when
patching. Therefore use….

sync; sync; reboot — -s

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I'm a freelance UNIX engineer working in the UK. I'm married to Tina and between us we have six children. I'm a bit of an Apple fan boy, and all the Windows machines in the house are a thing of the past now.

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