01-14-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by kduffin
I've noticed that a number of people tend to use 'reboot' on systems, but have placed either . or /etc/ in their PATH. Solaris has a /etc/reboot which is a symbolic link to halt, thus no orderly shutdown:
$ ls -l /etc/reboot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 17 2002 /etc/reboot -> ../usr/sbin/halt
I tend to favor shutdown for reboot:
shutdown -i6 -g0 -y
and power off:
shutdown -i5 -g0 -y
Cheers,
Keith
sun actually recommends using "/usr/sbin/init 6" for reboots and "/usr/sbin/init 5" for powerdowns --- shorter and still does basically the same thing ...
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