Which is more efficient in taking down network?

[frederick hannah]

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"?

[Michael Steele_2 · Accepted solution]

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.

[frederick hannah]

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?

[Pete Randall]

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

[frederick hannah]

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

[frederick hannah]

Init 1 is the level of choice.

[Rick Garland]

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.