How to reboot Solaris System

Hello.

First of all you must be logged in as "root" to reboot a machine from telnet or SSH access. (You may use "su" to change the log-in or you may use "sudo" to run a program as root.)

You should use the "reboot" command. It will automatically execute the "sync" and "init 6" commands.

"init" is a command which is typically executed by the system that runs the startup and shutdown scripts of the system.

"sync" will write all data in the cache memory to the hard disk.

This command may be useful in a completely different situation - if you write important data to the disk and you expect a system crash. Typing "sync" you ensure that the data is definitely written to the hard disk and not stored in the hard disk cache.

Martin

Martin_Rosenau at 2007-7-7 3:41:51 >