Halt system directly after swinstall autoreboot

[farid S]

Hi,
I have to install some patches that need reboot, and after that reboot, we will do somw hardware maintenance. This action will be taken during an outage for several servers at once. So is there a way, to force the system to do a halt shutdown and not a reboot after the swinstall. something like -x autoreboot=true for swinstall ...?
(I'm trying to script all of this outage actions).
Many Thanks,
Farid.

[Peter Godron]

Farid,
the closest I can think of right now would be via : /usr/sbin/setboot

See man setboot

set autoboot to OFF and the machine should not automatically reboot, but goto startup menu.

Never had to change, as I always auto-reboot and then shut down.

[Peter Godron]

Farid,
could you please complete the thread by awarding points to helpful answers and summarising the solution for you.
This will help resolution of similar problems in the future.

[OldSchool]

I would let them reboot and then do a clean shutdown for the hardware maint.

Imagine a scenario where you have patched, halted, and done hardware maintainence. Attempts to start one or more servers fail. Where do you start? Did the patches cause issues, or the hardware maint?

But, that's just my opinion......

[Denver Osborn · Accepted solution]

you can do this with the /var/adm/sw/defaults file. Append

swagent.reboot_cmd = "/sbin/reboot -h"

The default is /sbin/reboot.

hope this helps,
-denver

[farid S]

Thanks!