Command help?

[Aldo Foot]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Bradley <pursley001 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the input but, unfortunately, this doesn't give the results
> that I need.
>
>  I gave up and configured one of the run levels for doing the needed
> tasks and have the system reboot into that run level where it does what
> I need it to and then reboots the system back to the normal run level.
> Not a pretty arrangement but it seems to work.  While in the special run
> level, it does not activate any unnecessary services (network, servers,
> Xserver, etc.) and does not allow any user logins.  This turned out to
> be simpler and cleaner to set up than what I had previously considered.
>
> Bradley

System maintenance is best done as you describe.
It could be done without rebooting... but one needs to have
some creativity to set up the process correctly.

~af