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At this point, everybody other than root will get kicked off the system. If you have a ssh connection open and you have su'd to rrot, that connection will *not* be dropped.

Then once when you are done patching and gone through your final reboot, you can revert back to run level 3/multi-user-server as:

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svcadm milestone -d all

If you don't specify "all", you don't get a "console login: " prompt on the console; you get a "Enter root password for system maintenance. CTRL-D to bypass".

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