HP-UX i Version 2 System Administration HP Integrity and HP 9000 Servers

Chapter 8. System Startup and Shutdown

Introduction

This chapter covers a variety of topics related to startup and shutdown scripts including the following:

• The overall organization of the startup and shutdown mechanism in HP-UX

• Example of a startup file

• /etc/inittab file

• shutdown command

• Virtual Partitions (vPars) and startup

System Startup and Shutdown Mechanism

Startup and shutdown scripts for HP-UX 11i are based on a mechanism that separates the actual startup and shutdown scripts from configuration information. To modify the way your system starts or stops, you don't have to modify scripts, which in general is considered somewhat risky; you can instead modify configuration variables. The startup and shutdown sequence is based on an industry standard ...