In the following example, the shutdown command is used to reboot a SPARC system to run level 3 in 2 minutes without requiring additional confirmation.
# who kryten console May 7 08:40 rimmer pts/1 May 7 08:45 (starbug) pmorph pts/2 May 7 08:50 (bluemidget) Send mail message to logged-in users # shutdown -i6 -g120 -y Shutdown started. Wed May 7 09:52:06 PDT 1997 Broadcast Message from root (console) on pluto Wed May 7 09:46:58 The system will be shut down in 1 minute Changing to init state 6 - please wait # INIT: New run level: 6 The system is coming down. Please wait. . . . The system is down. syncing file systems... [11] [9] [5] done rebooting... . . . pluto console login: |