Comments on: Getting Root

By: Phillip Lougher

Phillip Lougher — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:59:46 +0000

You don’t need to reboot after installation – all you have to do is send the init process the SIGHUP signal to tell it to re-read /etc/inittab, e.g.

kill -s HUP 1

Jal Frezie — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:17:11 +0000

That’s excellent! Now, where do I get a c compiler?

wicknix — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:10:01 +0000

Username is root

anthony — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:26:13 +0000

what is the user name

Gert — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:49:55 +0000

One small omission:
You need to reboot after installing the patch otherwise the system does not re-read the inittab.

Gert