System Shutdown
Solaris has been designed to run continuously—seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Occasionally, however, you need to shut down the system to carry out administrative tasks. At other times, an application might cause the system to go awry, and the operating system must be stopped to kill off runaway processes and then be restarted.
You can shut down the system in a number of ways using various UNIX commands. With Solaris, taking down the operating system in an orderly fashion is important. When the system boots, several processes are started. These must be shut down before you power off the system. In addition, information has been cached in memory and has not yet been written to disk. The process of shutting down Solaris involves ...
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