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Operating Systems Solaris difference between init and shutdown Post 302335251 by Perderabo on Friday 17th of July 2009 10:23:21 PM
Old 07-17-2009
shutdown is a wrapper that calls init. There is a delay and it can ask a final confirmation question. So you can change your mind at the last minute.
 

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shutdown(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      shutdown(1M)

NAME
shutdown - shut down system, change system state SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/shutdown [-y] [-g grace-period] [-i init-state] [message] DESCRIPTION
shutdown is executed by the super user to change the state of the machine. In most cases, it is used to change from the multi-user state (state 2) to another state. By default, shutdown brings the system to a state where only the console has access to the operating system. This state is called single- user. Before starting to shut down daemons and killing processes, shutdown sends a warning message and, by default, a final message asking for confirmation. message is a string that is sent out following the standard warning message "The system will be shut down in ..." If the string contains more than one word, it should be contained within single (') or double (") quotation marks. The warning message and the user provided message are output when there are 7200, 3600, 1800, 1200, 600, 300, 120, 60, and 30 seconds remaining before shutdown begins. See EXAMPLES. System state definitions are: state 0 Stop the operating system. state 1 State 1 is referred to as the administrative state. In state 1 file systems required for multi-user operations are mounted, and logins requiring access to multi-user file systems can be used. When the system comes up from firmware mode into state 1, only the console is active and other multi-user (state 2) services are unavailable. Note that not all user processes are stopped when transitioning from multi-user state to state 1. state s, S State s (or S) is referred to as the single-user state. All user processes are stopped on transitions to this state. In the single-user state, file systems required for multi-user logins are unmounted and the system can only be accessed through the console. Logins requiring access to multi-user file systems cannot be used. state 5 Shut the machine down so that it is safe to remove the power. Have the machine remove power, if possible. The rc0 procedure is called to perform this task. state 6 Stop the operating system and reboot to the state defined by the initdefault entry in /etc/inittab. The rc6 procedure is called to perform this task. OPTIONS
-y Pre-answer the confirmation question so the command can be run without user intervention. -g grace-period Allow the super user to change the number of seconds from the 60-second default. -i init-state If there are warnings, init-state specifies the state init is to be in. By default, system state `s' is used. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using shutdown In the following example, shutdown is being executed on host foo and is scheduled in 120 seconds. The warning message is output 2 minutes, 1 minute, and 30 seconds before the final confirmation message. example# shutdown -i S -g 120 "===== disk replacement =====" Shutdown started. Tue Jun 7 14:51:40 PDT 1994 Broadcast Message from root (pts/1) on foo Tue Jun 7 14:51:41... The system will be shut down in 2 minutes ===== disk replacement ===== Broadcast Message from root (pts/1) on foo Tue Jun 7 14:52:41... The system will be shut down in 1 minutes ===== disk replacement ===== Broadcast Message from root (pts/1) on foo Tue Jun 7 14:53:41... The system will be shut down in 30 seconds ===== disk replacement ===== Do you want to continue? (y or n): FILES
/etc/inittab controls process dispatching by init ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
boot(1M), halt(1M), init(1M), killall(1M), reboot(1M), ufsdump(1M), init.d(4), inittab(4), nologin(4), attributes(5) NOTES
When a system transitions down to the S or s state, the /etc/nologin file (see nologin(4)) is created. Upon subsequent transition to state 2 (multi-user state), this file is removed by a script in the /etc/rc2.d directory. SunOS 5.10 9 May 2001 shutdown(1M)
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