System Administration Guide, Volume 1

SPARC: Example--Rebooting a System to Run Level 3 (Server)

In the following example, the shutdown command is used to reboot a SPARC based system to run level 3 in two minutes without requiring additional confirmation.


# who
root       console      Jul 14 14:14
rimmer     pts/0        Jul 14 14:15    (starbug)
pmorph     pts/1        Jul 14 14:15    (bluemidget)
# shutdown -i6 -g120 -y
Shutdown started.    Wed Jul 14 14:16:08 MDT 1999

Broadcast Message from root (console) on earth Wed Jul 14 14:16:08...
The system earth will be shut down in 2 minutes 
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Changing to init state 6 - please wait
# 
INIT: New run level: 6
The system is coming down.  Please wait.
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The system is down.
syncing file systems... done
rebooting...
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earth console login: