topic Re: Which is more efficient in taking down network? in Operating System - HP-UX

Which is more efficient in taking down network?

frederick hannah — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:06:34 GMT

Which process is more efficient (easier to restart) in shutting-down the netvork on an HPUX 11.11 server? Doing an "init 2" or a
"netstart stop"?

Re: Which is more efficient in taking down network?

Michael Steele_2 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:49:54 GMT

HI

always use the sbin command and init 2 will refer to the sbin command. So you either have a run level 3 system with no network or a run level 2 system. I'd init 2.

Re: Which is more efficient in taking down network?

frederick hannah — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:52:47 GMT

Init 2 sounds good as I want to be sure network processes arent running, but I dont want to do a full reboot either. From the command prompt, do a "init 2" and the network will shutdown?

Re: Which is more efficient in taking down network?

Pete Randall — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:18:20 GMT

From the man page for init, it looks like init 2 is not going to be enough:

2 Start most system daemons and login processes. This state is often called the "multi-user state". Login processes either at local terminals or over the network are possible.

I would suggest init 1, then you can use init 4 to bring the system back up.

Pete

Re: Which is more efficient in taking down network?

frederick hannah — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:20:51 GMT

Thanks. I dont why I was stuck on init 2. Thanks to both of you guys.

Re: Which is more efficient in taking down network?

frederick hannah — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:21:36 GMT

Init 1 is the level of choice.

Re: Which is more efficient in taking down network?

Rick Garland — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:28:49 GMT

I use the "init 2" and I watch the /etc/rc.log file (tail -f /etc/rc.log) so I know when it has completed it transition.

This should bring down all apps and just leave networking, assuming your apps are only configured for run levels 345.