NAME

single − switch the system to single-user mode

SYNOPSIS

/etc/single

DESCRIPTION

Single switches the system to single-user mode and turns the gettys off. Single does not kill background processes such as cron, update, or xnsd. These must be killed with kill or killall. Single is a shell script that invokes /etc/telinit. 

SEE ALSO

multi(1M), init(1M), getty(1M), kill(1), killall(1M), inittab(4). 

Version 2.3  —  July 04, 1985