[m_samuel_l]

I'd imagine something like "shutdown -h now" or the solaris equivalent

[gruturo]

Solaris would understand that, but Oracle's move was nowhere that gentle.

"uadmin 1 6" was more like it (Immediate poweroff, do not even sync disks)

[fimbulvetr]

More like:

lom> poweroff

As that is definitely something the os has no cability to block.

[zdw]

`shutdown -i 0 -g 0 -y` would be that Solaris equivalent (init level 0, grace period 0, yes to all prompts)

Solaris and derivatives are great OS's and far before their time in so many ways.

[Nursie]

Stop-A :)

[mjcl]

Good old killall!

[justin66]

Which behaves differently on Solaris than Linux, of course. Linux killall kills specific processes but on Solaris it forcefully kills everything on the landscape...

[vacri]

It doesn't shut the machine down though, right? Just kills all the processes? I remember reading somewhere that solaris-killall was only a part of the shutdown process.

I remember having a related problem with an ubuntu cloud server a while back. I'd called 'halt' instead of 'shutdown' - they're not the same, and on this machine 'halt' didn't actually send the 'okay, now power off' bit.

[justin66]

I learned what Solaris killall did in a very exciting and stressful way, but that was long ago and to be honest I'm not 100% sure. I believe I was left with a root prompt on the server itself and nothing else.

I remember being disgusted by the various halt, shutdown, reboot commands and so I learned what the various init run levels could do. That worked until I realized that Redhat and Debian set them up differently. At least init 0 is generally the same...

[mjcl]

Yup, I learned that it was different on Solaris than Linux on a remote system. Had to sheepishly call and ask someone to powercycle the box.