Comments on: Power off a Solaris system

By: rangaswamybv

rangaswamybv — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:28:28 +0000

I pressed Alt+F3 command prompt >> logged as admin >> given as poweroff command >> After next booting it is showing as >> Starting in powersave mode >> Its not able to boot the system >> Simply it reboots for 3 mins everytime >> The system is sun solaris and unix os

By: guest

guest — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:31:36 +0000

You could use the Sun recommended shutdown command. :wink:

shutdown -y -i5 -g0

look up the man page, but the i option specifies run level, the g option grace period in seconds before the shutdown and the y options answer yes to the usual question of are you sure.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:56:30 +0000

Sync is no longer necessary in any modern version of Unix (Solaris and Linux included). If you’re a system administrator, you should learn proper use of the init command, which allows you to change runlevels. Here are a few different uses of init:

# init 6 – reboots the system
# init 5 – halts the system (turns power off)
# init 0 – sends you to runlevel 0, which is the “ok” prompt (OpenBoot PROM)
# init 1 – sends you to single user mode, useful for installing patches.