nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/administration/maintenance-mode.xml

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<title>Maintenance Mode</title>

<para>You can enter rescue mode by running:

<screen>
# systemctl rescue</screen>

This will eventually give you a single-user root shell.  Systemd will
stop (almost) all system services.  To get out of maintenance mode,
just exit from the rescue shell.</para>

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			`<title>Maintenance Mode</title>`

			`<para>You can enter rescue mode by running:`

			`<screen>`
Manual: Explicitly mark commands that require to be run as root (#15589) * manual: Mark commands that require root Mark every command that requires to be run as root by prefixing them with '#' instead of '$'. * manual: Add note about commands that require root 2016-06-01 16:23:32 +02:00			`# systemctl rescue</screen>`
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			`This will eventually give you a single-user root shell. Systemd will`
			`stop (almost) all system services. To get out of maintenance mode,`
			`just exit from the rescue shell.</para>`

Manual: Explicitly mark commands that require to be run as root (#15589) * manual: Mark commands that require root Mark every command that requires to be run as root by prefixing them with '#' instead of '$'. * manual: Add note about commands that require root 2016-06-01 16:23:32 +02:00			`</section>`