Stopping The Workstation Without Turning It Off; Halt Button And System Unit On/Off Switch - DEC DECstation 5000 Model 100 Series Hardware Operator's Manual

Stopping the Workstation Without Turning It Off

If ULTRIX is your worksystem software, you can shut it down
by typing shutdown -h now at the ULTRIX prompt and
pressing Return.
If you are unable to return to console mode using this shutdown
command, you can stop your workstation and all worksystem
software by pressing the halt button on the back of the system
unit. The workstation and software stop whatever they were
doing, and the monitor displays the console prompt (
your work, if you can, before pressing the halt button.
Caution:
worksystem software running may result in the loss or corruption of
data.
Halt button
Figure 9-4. Halt button and system unit on/off switch
The specific result of pressing the halt button is determined by
the setting of the haltaction environment variable. Table 11-4,
on page 11-22, explains how to set this variable.
9–8 Starting and Testing Workstation Hardware
Pressing the halt button with your workstation and any
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