uptime and reboot

[navin]

Hi,
I had to reboot the HPUX 11.11 box , i have not used the console , rebooted using sam.

But after coule of min ..when i ran the uptime in the server i see that the server was not rebooted. but the OLDsyslog was created and shutdown log is showing up the reboot with correct time stamp.
Please let me know what was wrong.
Thanks in adavnce

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

A couple of minutes - seems kind of quick for a reboot.

Maybe the process has not fully completed yet?
Are you sure you went through a short time period in which you could not log on to the server?

[navin]

no after half hour ..and also the important note is that i was not able to teld to the box ...because inetd and few other process were not running.i had to manually restart the inetd .

Thanks

[DCE]

perform a ps -ef | grep rc to see if one of the shutdown processes has hung (databases will sometimes hang the reboot process)

you can also do a ps -ef |grep reboot
and
ps -ef | grep shut

to see if the shutdown process is still out there.

You may very well find that the server reboots itself some time later when one of the above processes finshes.....

[Chrisl_2]

go to /etc, and more the rc.log file. This log will tell you exactly what happened during your reboot.

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

hi,

it seems that the machine was not rebooted properly.
if u have the console access you can check if all the services started prperly by jus dragging the window up.
we used to check it this way.
if inetd was not running then it should have FAILED status while rebooting.

hope this helped.
sunny