What is the shut down procedure for a SPARC 5 work station. Will a message appear giving a OK to shut down? Thanks.

Hi J. Diaz, There are 2 methods to shutdown a Solaris Machine either use the 'init' command or 'shutdown' command. The Syntax for init command is: #init 5 But the better way to shutdown a Solaris machine is by using 'Shutdown' command. The syntax is: #shutdown -y -g10 -i5 '-y' is used to bypass the confirmation for shutdown. If u dont use -y u'll be prompted to continue the shutdown porcess after 60 seconds. '-g(grace period)' is used to specify the time to wait before the system is shut down. Defualt is 60 seconds. -i(init state) gives u the option to select the init state. Default is Single User mode but u can use '5' to power off the system. If u r using a SPARC machine then u wont get any message like "OK to shut down". The above command directly powers off ur machine If u r using a Intel based machine u get a message "Type Any Key To Continue", when u press a key it restarts ur PC. Rgds, ABDUL.

the shutdown script actually runs "init" after performing a few sanity checks and so forth.