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How to use the rescue mode,
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Nico Schottelius 2005-06-13 (Last Modified: 2005-06-13)
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cinit knows of a so called "rescue mode" (other init systems also
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name it "Single user").
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In this rescue mode you have a shell. Exactly one shell.
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No getty, no daemon, nothing will be alive, not even cinit.
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You start the rescue mode either by
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a) sending SIGUSR2 to cinit (kill -USR2 1)
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b) using cservice (cservice -s thilo)
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You can do maintaining then. When you finished, you can either
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a) hard-reboot/poweroff/halt
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b) restart cinit and restart the system without needing to reboot
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In the later case, you simply have to replace your shell with
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cinit. In most shells you can do that by entering the following:
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shell # exec /sbin/cinit
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This assumes that you left the system in a clean state: Exactly as
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the kernel would start (Well, cinit may ignore if some things are there,
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but do not wonder if some services will fail, if their job is already done.).
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Oh, and yes, you could even update cinit this way ;-)
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