bminnebo@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brian P. Minnebo) (03/29/90)
I have several Tower 600's used by less than computer literate people.
When they reboot the system, it will run through the hardware checks, and
goto single user with a login on the console. What I would like is for
the boot procedure to go into multi user as the default.
Is there any method to set this up or is it fixed in the hardware?
If it is fixed in the hardware is there a way around it by
messing with inittab file? ( such as making single user = init 1
and multi-user = init 2?)
If anyone has any experience/advice on this topic I would apreciate
hearing what you have to say, any ups and downs you experienced, or any
other information you fell mightel might be of help.
Thanks, Brian--
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bminnebo@vela.acs.oakland.edu -- E. W. Dijkstrawescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott) (03/29/90)
In article <482@vela.acs.oakland.edu> bminnebo@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brian P. Minnebo) writes: > [...] What I would like is for the boot procedure to go into multi > user as the default. > Is there any method to set this up or is it fixed in the hardware? It's not done by hardware (or firmware). Try changing the inittab entry marked initdefault. From inittab(4): initdefault Scan the entry only when init is initially invoked. Init uses this entry, if it exists, to determine which run-level to enter initially: init takes the highest run-level specified in the rstate field and uses that as its initial state. If the rstate field is empty, it is interpreted as 0123456 and so init enters run-level 6. Also, the initdefault entry can use s to specify that init starts in the SINGLE USER state. Additionally, if init does not find an initdefault entry in /etc/inittab, then init requests an initial run-level from the user at reboot time. -- -Mike Wescott mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM