rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

ke han ke.han at redstarling.com
Sat Sep 16 17:16:47 PDT 2006


On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:47 AM, pobox at verysmall.org wrote:

> Hello,
>
> could somebody help me to understand the best way to enter into a  
> single user mode on a remote server.
>
> I need it for the moment, during rebuilding world, when I have to  
> reboot into single user mode before 'mergemaster -p'.

I had this same issue last week... fortunately, my hosting provider  
had a remote KVM solution and hooked it up to my server while I got  
the job done.  btw, that provider was m5hosting.com.  I originally  
found them from the freebsd.org community page and have been very  
happy with their knowledge and support.

good luck, ke han


>
> The only solution I found so far is to do 'shutdown -r now' and  
> when the server boots to login with ssh and do 'shutdown now' -  
> which should drop it to single user mode.
>
> I can ask the support at the hosting location to reboot in single  
> user mode, but I do not know if I will have ssh then?
>
> Alternatively I can ask them to do the last few steps.
>
> Thank you for your advises,
> Iv.
>
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