Re: screen in single user mode - "cannot open /dev/console"

[Geraint Edwards]

John Davidorff Pell <address@hidden> said
                (on Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:01:11PM -0700):
> Mac OS X is the only system that I know of that calls something "single user 
> mode".

You look like you're quoting from the Wikipedia entry.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_user_mode

It's wrong - I should update it.

Of course, FreeBSD and Mac OS X are related, so this may be repeating what you 
said:

        
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-init.html#BOOT-SINGLEUSER

Even Solaris (once a BSD-based O/S) has "run level S" which is also called 
single-user mode.

        http://www.ussg.iu.edu/usail/man/solaris/init.1.html

Need I mention OpenBSD (and NetBSD probably has it too)?

        http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=init

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