Comments on: Shut Down or Reboot a Solaris System

By: JoeSchmoe

JoeSchmoe — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:40:26 +0000

the ‘-y’ means ‘yes, i really mean to do this’

By: ranga

ranga — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:19:27 +0000

i have a question ..

#shutdown -y -i5 -g0

here g means gracefully and i means init 5 to shutdown

what is -y ? what it indicates?

By: ayam

ayam — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:05:47 +0000

#!/bin/ksh

echo “please reboot this computer NOW”
#END SCRIPT

put that script in crontab and configure so it runs every 30 minutes

By: Christian O

Christian O — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:57:39 +0000

How do you create a shutdown script that would reboot the computer for every 30 minutes with the warning script?

By: Ihatebloatware

Ihatebloatware — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:08:04 +0000

Solaris 10 Developers edition – the CME desktop (the old one that looks a bit like an Amstrad 286 GUI, lol) doesn’t seem to have a button to shutdown.

The KDE desktop – I think I used the command line (terminal, konsole) and just typed in ’shutdown’ – it’s a bit temperamental cause the default install configures things like DHCP and expects the machine to be online all the time; mine isn’t, so sometimes it refuses to entirely close. Sometimes it doesn’t want to start either but it’s usually ok and hasn’t ever crashed. I haven’t looked at what I should disable / enable yet on the running services…

nb – Sun’s manual and help pages for commands for mounting USB harddrives are wrong for Developer 10!

By: olivier d

olivier d — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:05:38 +0000

avoir poweroff and reboot : as they don’t call the /etc/…. scripts they should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

prefer “init _number_” (works on old and new versions) for solaris.

(note: on linux, prefer “telinit _number_” to go in that mode (ex: telinit 1 to go into single user mode)

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:43:06 +0000

The sync’s you’ve added before init are totally superflous.
“poweroff” only exists on the big SunFire systems.

By: Ally

Ally — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:38:48 +0000

Does any one know how to get the shutdown/hibernate options to appear on the logoff screen for my version: developers solaris 10?
I just want to use it on my home PC as a desktop OS.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:23:25 +0000

Thanks for the tip… I had read somewhere that reboot calls the shutdown scripts, but I guess that was incorrect.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:54:26 +0000

There are differences between shutdown, reboot, init 6.

Shutdown will issue a warning, and can be deferred.

init 6 calls application shutdown scripts. reboot does not.