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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Were do I start? Post 5908 by jurrien on Sunday 26th of August 2001 04:26:29 PM

08-26-2001

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you could take a unxi flavor like solaris/freebsd/netbsd/openbsd because you can download them free and have one page for all the support you need. (proberly cost you something). or you could take linux (ofcourse you buy one)(you can download if for free also but then you have to find out many things). then you should use a version with many cd's so you have al the needed apps on cd. and if you need to support you aks the person who programmed the program you have troubles with or on newsgroups/forums/irc. the problems with linxu are that if you wan to upgrade it goes somethimes a bit diffycult. (need to download much because a program needs many new libs what it you don't have installed. ). ofcourse there are handy pages where you can find these things. ( http://freshmeat.net ).
if you want to have a commercial support (more then when you buy solaris/netbsd/freebsd/openbsd/linux ) you couldgo for sco unix or hp-ux or some other unix flavors. problems with the last group is that most or many programs are not opensource adn sometiimes you even need to buy licenses if you havelike more then 50 users using he email on that machine (that is not the case in linux).

for nice linux flavors
www.redhat.com
www.suse.com (my favorite)
www.mandrake.com

for nice "free" unix flavors
www.freebsd.com
www.openbsd.com
www.netbsd.com
www.solaris.com

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shutdown

asadmin-shutdown(1AS)						   User Commands					     asadmin-shutdown(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-shutdown, shutdown - brings down the administration server

SYNOPSIS

       shutdown [--user admin_user][--password admin_password][--host localhost] [--port 4848][--passwordfile filename][--secure|-s]

       shutdown  gracefully brings down the administration server and all the running instances. You must manually start the administration server
       to bring it up again.

OPTIONS

       --user		       administrative user associated for the instance.

       --password	       administrative password corresponding to the administrative user.

       --host		       host name of the machine hosting the administrative instance.

       --port		       administrative port number associated with the administrative host.

       --passwordfile	       file containing passwords appropriate for the command (e.g., administrative instance).

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the administrative instance.

       Example 1: Using the shutdown command

       asadmin> shutdown --user admin --password adminadmin --host bluestar --port 4848
       Waiting for admin server to shutdown...
       Admin server has been shutdown

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

INTERFACE EQUIVALENT

       Administration Server page

       asadmin-start-instance(1AS), asadmin-stop-instance(1AS), asadmin-restart-instance(1AS)asadmin-start-domain(1AS),  asadmin-stop-domain(1AS),
       asadmin-start-appserv(1AS), asadmin-stop-appserv(1AS)

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