Shutting Down Your System; Using The Shutdown Command To Stop Your System - HP 9000 Series Owner's Manual

Shutting Down Your System

If you need to cycle power on a system using a local disk, you will have
to execute the
shutdown
command line, with SAM or by using the HP VUE Toolbox.

Using the Shutdown Command to Stop Your System

Do not turn o power to your system without rst shutting
Caution
down the operating system software according to the following
procedure. Turning o the power for your system without rst
doing the shutdown procedure may result in damage to data on
your disk. Always execute the shut-down process to completion
rst.
1. As , enter the following command:
root
shutdown -h
This will give you and any other users on your system a one-minute \grace
period" to save les and terminate processes before the system goes down to
the halted state.
2. You will see a message:
Waiting a grace period of 60 seconds for users to logout. Do not turn
off the power or press reset during this time.
(You can specify this message and you can determine the \grace period"
that allows. See
shutdown
for instructions on using various options.)
3. At the end of the period, you will see another warning and the following
request for con rmation:
Do you want to continue? ...
4. Respond with . You will see another message con rming shutdown.
y
Finally, you will see the following message:
Halted, you may now cycle power.
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command rst. You can do this either from the
shutdown (1M) and System Administration Tasks
Logging In and Getting Started
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