Thanks!
This helped me.
I'll be using init 5 from now on.

--- In solarisx86@yahoogroups.com, "Terry J Fike Jr" <kiana_talasian@...> wrote:
>
> --- In solarisx86@yahoogroups.com, Matthias Pfützner <Matthias@> wrote:
> >
> > You (Terry J Fike Jr) write:
> > > --- In solarisx86@yahoogroups.com, Matthias Pfützner <Matthias@>
> wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > > Yes, you're right... ;-)
> > > >
> > > > I was thinking about the "sync;sync;sync;halt" sequence still many
> > > > old-sys-admins still use...
> > > >
> > > > So: Sorry for the confusion!
> > > >
> > > > Matthias
> > > > --
> > >
> > > old? old?? dang...i'm only in my mid 30's...i'm not ... *gasp*...
> old...
> > >
> > > *laugh* sorry, this is how i was taught to shut down machines, back in
> > > college, so it is how i still do it today...(even my desktop machines)
> >
> > So, and those, telling you to do so? They are older than you, and have
> > learn(t/ed) that somewhere... So, it's old! And outdated!
> >
> > I'm 42 (the answer to all questions?), and I was told and taught to use
> > shutdown, and not use "sync;sync;sync;halt" in "college"... ;-)
> Might be, your
> > college also was/is "outdated"? (kidding!)
> >
> > I had multiple problems with the SVC (SMF) in Solaris 10, and with
> DBs (N1
> > SPS internal DB, for example), when using the "shutdown" option from
> > Gnome... (old versions had that "sync;sync;sync;halt" hardcoded into the
> > GUI... ;-( ).
> >
> > So, you should really decommission that way of shutting down a
> system. You
> > should really use "init 5" (or press the power-button on OpenSolaris on
> > /x86//x64, it also does the shutdown), or use the "longer" shutdown
> -g0 -y
> > -i5. It simply is safer!
> >
> > This way, and only this way, the "stop" procedures of the apps are
> run! And
> > there are now some (not to say: many!) that really need to be
> shutdown/stopped
> > properly!
> >
> > Matthias
> > --
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> auszudrücken.
> >
>
> Hmm...okay. As they say, learn something new every day...
> I'll make to make sure i teach this to all the people learning under
> me...(which scares me sometimes that I'm the one with the knowledge)
>