I was trying to shutdown an old solaris box with:
shutdown now
Obviously not the right thing to do as I got output similar to this:
Shutdown started. Mon Oct 19 11:58:55 BST 2009
Broadcast Message from root (pts/1) on apu Mon Oct 19 11:58:55…
The system myhostname will be shut down in 1 minute
now
rwall: Can’t send to anotherhost.uk
anotherhost.uk: RPC: Program not registered
rwall: Can’t send to anotherhost2.uk
anotherhost2.uk: RPC: Program not registered
Do you want to continue? (y or n): Broadcast Message from root (pts/1) on apu Mon Oct 19 11:59:46…
False Alarm: The system myhostname will not be brought down.
…
Shutdown aborted.
So what I should be doing (for future reference) is:
init 5
