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09-30-2002

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Hello again and thanks for the reply!

We have solved the problem I mentioned above, and indeed as you wrote we called the local Sun office who sent their guru to help us out. They also charged us an enormous amount but that's the way it works nowadays. The fix itself was rather basic but as in most cases you have to know it first.

Next to the Netra you need an installation server in the network and you also need to know the MAC-address of the network card in the Netra. This can be found in the documentation which comes with the machine.

The software for the installation-server can be downloaded from the Sun site or you can use CD-ROM's which, in our case, the Sun technician brought along.

Solaris had to be reinstalled on the Netra and to do this there is a wizard on the installation server which guides you through the whole procedure. Like I just mentioned, you need to provide the MAC-address of the Netra when it asks for it. The server boots the Netra and the installation can proceed much in the same manner as a normal installation.

As for why the inittab file was corrupt remains a mystery for us. We assume that someone had tried to install Solaris before but did not complete the installation.

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halt

halt(1M)						  System Administration Commands						  halt(1M)

NAME

       halt, poweroff - stop the processor

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/halt [-dlnqy]

       /usr/sbin/poweroff [-dlnqy]

DESCRIPTION

       The  halt  and  poweroff  utilities  write  any	pending information to the disks and then stop the processor. The poweroff utility has the
       machine remove power, if possible.

       The halt and poweroff utilities normally log the system shutdown to the system log daemon, syslogd(1M), and place a shutdown record in  the
       login accounting file /var/adm/wtmpx. These actions are inhibited if the -n or -q options are present.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d    Force a system crash dump before rebooting. See dumpadm(1M) for information on configuring system crash dumps.

       -l    Suppress sending a message to the system log daemon, syslogd(1M), about who executed halt.

       -n    Prevent the sync(1M) before stopping.

       -q    Quick halt. No graceful shutdown is attempted.

       -y    Halt the system, even from a dialup terminal.

FILES

       /var/adm/wtmpx	 History of user access and administration information.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       dumpadm(1M), init(1M), reboot(1M), shutdown(1M), sync(1M), syslogd(1M), inittab(4), attributes(5), smf(5)

NOTES

       The halt and poweroff utilities do not cleanly shutdown smf(5) services. Execute the scripts in /etc/rcnum.d or execute shutdown actions in
       inittab(4). To ensure a complete shutdown of system services, use shutdown(1M) or init(1M) to reboot a Solaris system.

SunOS 5.11							    2 Nov 2004								  halt(1M)