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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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reboot — Restart the Operating System

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/reboot [-dlnq][bootarguments]

Description

The reboot command restarts the kernel. The kernel is loaded into memory by the PROM monitor, which transfers control to the loaded kernel.

Although superuser can run reboot at any time, shutdown(1M) is normally used first to warn all users logged in of the impending loss of service. See shutdown(1M) for details.

reboot performs a sync(1M) operation on the disks and then initiates a multiuser reboot. See init(1M) for details.

reboot normally logs the reboot to the system log daemon, syslogd(1M), and puts a shutdown record in the login accounting ...

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