gracful shutdown HP-UX 11i server

[Asif_8]

what is a graceful method to shutdown HP-UX 9000 server(rp5405) on HP-UX 11i

[Pete Randall]

Use "shutdown -h -y 0". This will cycle through all the shutdown scripts, allowing all services to be stopped normally before the machine itself is halted.


Pete

[Geoff Wild]

reboot: shutdown -r
halt: shutdown -h

man shutdown for more info.

Rgds...Geoff

[RAC_1]

shutdown -hy 0

Anil

[Steven E. Protter]

shutdown

-ry 0 to reboot

-hy 0 to stop the server

shutdown -ry 0
shutdown -hy 0

SEP

[Nicolas Dumeige]

Hello,

shutdown -h -y -g 0 now

Cheers

Nicolas

[Petr Simik_1]

shutdown as mentioned is safe way.
somebody noticed me that reboot can be performed too, but sync command is to be placed in before. It will look like:
#sync; sync; reboot;

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,
1. Use "wall" command to send messages to all logged in users about server going down.
2. Confirm using who command whether all users are logged out
3. Use "ps -ef | more" command to check whether any critical/important processes are still running
4. Confirm there are no activities going on the attached I/O devices.
5. Then finally # shutdown -y -h 0

Regards,

[john kingsley]

Reboot is not the recommended way to shutdown a system. Reboot will sync the disks prior to shutting down the system, but it will not stop the services gracefully (it doesn't run the /sbin/rc*.d/K* kill scripts).

To gracefully shutdown an hp-ux system, always run:
shutdown -y -r[or h] [grace]
Where: y confirms the action
r reboots the system
h halts the system
grace is the number of seconds before beginning the shutdown to allow users to logout.