[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.