[SPARCbook] SB3 and short reads

[Ken Hansen]

I prefer to shutdown with this "incantation," but others are just as good:

    shutdown -y -g0 -i0 Bye!

This equates to a shutdown that avoids the confirmation question, waits 0
seconds (grace = 0) and goes down to runlevel 0. A power off from runlevel 0
is safe AFAIK.

HTH, glad your other problems were resolved,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mat Maessen" <tomatoe at nycap.rr.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SB3 and short reads


>
> > I do have one last question - mostly a clarifiction.  When I execute
> > "shutdown -g0", the system works for a while, then comes to a point
where
> > it says to enter root password or ctrl-d for maintenance.  At this
point,
> > I do a stop-a and a power-off.  Is this the proper point to do this?
It's
> > in single-user at this point, as best I can tell, so I don't see why
not.
>
> It's in single-user at that point, but the filesystems are still mounted
> read-write. Bad to suck power out from under it at that point.
> Better way to shut down:
>
> init 0 (brings you down to boot PROM)
>
> or
>
> init 5 (powers off the unit)
>
> If you must use the shutdown command, put a -i0  or -i5 in the command
line. See
> "man shutdown" for more details. In either case, you're passing a new
runlevel
> to init, and you want that to be either 0 or 5 for a proper shutdown.
>
> -Mat
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