I need to totally power down my UNIX box, I think the script is

shutdown -y -i5 -g0

I know -i6 is for a clean reboot but I can't remember if -i5 is the power down script.....
Can anyone tell me if this is correct.
Thanks

if you have a sun solaris then you are right. On Solaris you can shutdown either with -i 0 or with -i 5, where -i 5 power downs the
whole system ( depends on the hardware I think, saw that it didn't work each time ).

On HPUX or AIX you have to use shutdown -h instead, because they don't have the -i parameter in the shutdown command.

Maybe you have a look into the man-pages for shutdown and init on your system ( If you see some strange things on the shutdown-manpage try "man 1M shutdown" ... there is a manpage for a systemcall in section 2 )

I'm 99.9% sure it's init 5 but it's always good to get confirmation from somebody else....

When we do a system reset on Redhat we use :

init 6 - Power down and restart
init 0 - Power down and stop

hope this helps..

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-ghoti

In SOlaris
init 6 - power down and restart
init 5 - downs the system don't even have to give power-off which needs to be given when you give init 0

thanks for all the help...