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If somebody does command: touch /tmp/confirm RedHat 6.1, when rebooted, automatically enters in interactive startup So no process from /etc/rc?.d/S* will be started and system won't boot up until admin comes and presses N or Y or C on the console Solution: in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit it should be removed before /sbin/getkey will be spawned I think a few last lines from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit should be like these: CONFIRM="no" if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then /sbin/getkey i && CONFIRM="yes" fi [ "$CONFIRM" = "yes" ] && touch /tmp/confirm || rm -f /tmp/confirm || true wait Better solution: MOVE this flag file to NONWORDWRITEABLE directory, like /var/lock, Robert Luberda <robert.uj.edu.pl> PS. There's another problem with /tmp/confirm: if admin wants system to enter interacive startup by pressing key 'I' and /tmp/confirm exists and it's a directory.
moved to /var/run/confirm in initscripts-4.63-1. There's no need to do the prior removal, as /var/run is cleaned at each boot.