single(1M)
single - switch the system to single-user mode
As shipped in IRIX 6.5.7. Unchanged since IRIX 6.5.
NAME single - switch the system to single-user mode SYNOPSIS /etc/single DESCRIPTION single switches the system to single-user mode and turns the gettys off. single is a shell script that invokes /etc/telinit. SEE ALSO getty(1M), init(1M), kill(1), killall(1M), multi(1M), inittab(4).