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Article #9652Re: Single user backups
From: Tom Poage
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 10:04
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 10:04
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I haven't tried this ... but I plan to real soon now :-).
To bring the system (down) to single-user for unattended
backups, try leaving a semaphore via cron or at:
cat /dev/null >/mymessage
/etc/reboot
In one of your rc files put something like
if [ -f "/mymessage" ]; then
rm -f /mymessage
# Hmm, security hole? vvvvv
/run/your/dump/backup.shell
# or run your C program with exec(dump).
/etc/reboot
fi
Tom.
Tom Poage, UCDMC Clinical Engineering, Sacto., CA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: ucdavis!sunny!poage@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Tom Poage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Single user backups Message-ID: <353@sunny.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 88 10:04:49 GMT References: <8811102135.AA09427@rice.edu> <8811222300.AA12286@douglass.cs.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 5 Dec 88 03:14:05 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 56, message 1 of 14