How to reboot a HP-UX server

[Shahid Nadeem]

I am new to HP-UX can someone tell me how to reboot the server please.

[Sundar_7]

# cd /
# /usr/sbin/shutdown -r -y 0

-r = reboot

-y = dont ask for confirmation

0 = Shutdown now

shutdown command is the preferred way to shutdown a system though you could reboot and init commands too.

# reboot

reboot command will not execute any kill scripts and reboot the system in a crude way :-). not recommended unless you are sure the shutdown scripts are going to hang (like if you have messed up with your cluster and you are sure cluster halt will fail).

# init 0

can halt the system

# init 6

will shutdown and reboot the system

[Sundar_7]

oops ! sorry forget about init 6 - I probably confused SCO with HP-UX here :-)

[Steven E. Protter]

You must under default configuration be root user to restart

shutdown -ry now

to shutdown restart

shutdown -hy now

to halt

sEP

[Geoff Wild]

Others have giving you your answer.

New to HP-UX / Unix?

man is your friend:

man 1m shutdown

That will give you the "manual" page on shutdown.

Also,

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/home

s a great resource and these forums of course

Rgds...Geoff

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