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2. Return to the operating system environment.
If you are in a windowing environment, exit from it and wait for the operating
system prompt to appear. See the documentation supplied with your windowing
system.
3. Halt the operating system.
See the documentation supplied with your operating system for instructions on
how to halt it.
For example, if you are using the Solaris 2.x operating system:
a. At the system prompt, type su and press Return.
b. Type your superuser password and press Return.
4. To inform other system users of your intentions, and to then halt the system
use Step c.
5. To halt the system immediately, continue with Step d.
a. Type /usr/sbin/shutdown +5 and press Return.
b. Type /usr/sbin/init 0 and press Return.
For example, to halt the system immediately type:
nevada% su
Password: welcome(Password does not appear on screen.)
nevada# /usr/sbin/init 0
See the documentation supplied with your operating system for instructions on how
to halt it. The system synchronizes the file systems and brings you to either the > or
ok prompt.
If you see the ok prompt, skip ahead to step 5; otherwise, continue with step 4.
1. Enter n at the > prompt to get to the ok prompt.
2. Enter reset at the ok prompt.
3. When you see the system banner, press Stop-a to access the Forth Toolkit.
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The example above uses 5 minutes for a warning period to other system users.
Use appropriately chosen switch settings to inform other system users of your
intentions (see shutdown(1)). Continue with Step 4.

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