From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:29:41 -0800

Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
> I always believed (as a user) that entering into multi-mode was akin
> to declaring my consent for interaction (aka liveliness).

I wouldn't tie multi-mode to interactive. (We need the Java equivalent
of isatty(0).)

Multi-mode could be invoked by a UNIX script that starts with
#!/usr/bin/asadmin