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  illumin8

  5 years ago

  Sync is no longer necessary in any modern version of Unix (Solaris and Linux included). If you're a system administrator, you should learn proper use of the init command, which allows you to change runlevels. Here are a few different uses of init:
  
  # init 6 - reboots the system
  # init 5 - halts the system (turns power off)
  # init 0 - sends you to runlevel 0, which is the "ok" prompt (OpenBoot PROM)
  # init 1 - sends you to single user mode, useful for installing patches.
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  Anonymous

  5 years ago

  umm.. but I believe
  
  shutdown -h 5 -g 60 -y
  
  That will shut it down cleanly and power it off.
  
  "shutdown" includes sync and all that graceful fun stuff.
  
  Sincerely
  Craig Fourie
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  Troy

  4 years ago

  Hi anybody,
  can't reboot my E450, sure i'm root . But any of these init 6, reboot, or halt commands returns me (after some seconds) to the shell prompt.
  
  any idea? thx. Troy
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  flexinfo

  6 months ago

  Try this:
  
  /sbin/uadmin 2 0
  
  That will shutdown the node without the execution of the init kill scripts...
  
  btw what version of solaris / kernal patch level are your using?
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  Anonymous

  4 years ago

  Hopefully you've sorted this by now, but use shutdown -i6 -g0 -y to reboot if none of the others work, though I can't think why they shouldn't.
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