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This is what I sent to Phil in a private email just so you know what's
already been suggested.

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Christofer C. Bell                      Information Systems Lead
Union Computing Services                email: cbell@ukans.edu
University of Kansas                    phone: 785-864-4893
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Message-ID: <3630A555.FEB42460@ukans.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:48:37 -0500
From: "Christofer C. Bell" <cbell@ukans.edu>
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To: phil freeman <freeman@lbpc.com>
Subject: Re: shell at startup?
References: <36309814.41994A93@lbpc.com> <3630998A.9A5750E0@ukans.edu> <3630A380.264D6294@lbpc.com>
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phil freeman wrote:

> when i boot i get a root shell comes up before it finishes. it's
> actually before the root partition is mounted read write. and if i
> reboot it remotely it'll just sit there.... any ideas ?

It sounds like your machine is coming up in single user mode.  If this
is a new machine, it will not boot multi-user until you have set
rc_configured=YES in /etc/rc.conf.  If the machine has suffered a power
failure, then you might need to run fsck manually on your filesystems.

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Christofer C. Bell                      Information Systems Lead
Union Computing Services                email: cbell@ukans.edu
University of Kansas                    phone: 785-864-4893


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