You will have to be more specific about 'all the usuals', and especially specific about what you actually did with them, we're pretty much in the dark here. Especially since you didn't tell us what your OS actually is. ifup makes me suspect it's Linux, and if so, you can try giving your system a wholly manual configuration like this:
...assuming you want it to be on 192.168.0.50 with a gateway of 192.168.0.1 and a DNS server of 192.168.0.1. If you know the IP addresses of everything DNS is optional.
Hi Expert,
I have encountered some problem with my SUN system. Everytime when i issue command #init 6 OR #init 0 it just logout and prompt for login again instead of rebooting the server when run init 6 and system shutdown when run init 0..
I can only reboot the system using reboot ... Was... (6 Replies)
I change my default shell to zsh but can't find the init files, .zshrc and .zlogin from /export/home and /home. The other shells init files are there:.cshrc, .profile and .login. Am I suppose to use these as templates?
Also, bash_history is there but not zsh_history although zsh do keep a... (2 Replies)
Dear all,
I typed in init 1 on my redhat box as root and according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel):
1 Single-User Mode Does not configure network interfaces, start daemons, or allow non-root logins
So now I can't connect back to it. How do I change the init back to 3?... (8 Replies)
What is the difference between 'init s' and 'init 1'.
I know that both will work to change the current run level to single user mode.
Is there any difference in those two commands? (5 Replies)
In the olden days it used to be /etc/inittab.
Then it got changed to /etc/event.d/tty* under Fedora 10.
Can someone please point out what it is now in Fedora 13? I want to run mgetty which I had configured in Fedora 10 as /etc/event.d/ppp0:
# modem - getty
#
# This service maintains a... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am experiencing a weird thing on my SUNFIRE machine with Solaris 9 OS.
When I do init 0 to shutdown the machine to go to ok prompt, what it did was shutdown and reboot like an init 6 command do. I did check the corresponding rc scripts that were involved with init 0 and compared with rc... (2 Replies)
I encountered a problem on one of our database servers.
OS: CentOS 5.5 final
Kernel: 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5.028stab085.2 (OpenVZ kernel)
We wrote some DB-Start/Stop-scripts ("/db2/admin/scripts_dba/start_services.ksh" and ".../stop_services.ksh") to start the database instances. (Database... (1 Reply)
Why not just init? What do /etc/rc*.* scripts, rc*.*d and init*.*d directories and directory trees, etc (ex like svc, startsrc, and on and on) do that init and inittab do not or could not do? Is it just so novice SysAdmins need not mess with init?
Is there an overview anyplace of how start-up... (4 Replies)
Hello Team,
I work on IBM TWS ( Tivoli Workload Scheduler ) administration. I have placed TWS service stop and start script under directory /etc/init.d/ in my Linux server and coded email alert when the script has been executed with stop or start parameter .
I am receiving email notification... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
fasthalt
fastboot(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands fastboot(1B)NAME
fastboot, fasthalt - reboot/halt the system without checking the disks
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/fastboot [boot-options]
/usr/ucb/fasthalt [halt-options]
DESCRIPTION
fastboot and fasthalt are shell scripts that invoke reboot and halt with the proper arguments.
These commands are provided for compatibility only.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO fsck(1M), halt(1M), init(1M), reboot(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 28 Feb 1994 fastboot(1B)