Richard Elling writes: > In most modern servers, "power off" in the traditional > sense of "init 5" is not the same as "turn off the power to > the server." I wonder if the customer is trying to solve the > wrong problem?
Based on the original description, it sounds like he's trying to solve the usual UPS software install problem: you are required to set up a script that (somehow!) runs after everything else has run during a normal shutdown. This UPS software vendor supplied script checks a flag to see if we're in the midst of a UPS-initiated shutdown. If we are, then it tells the UPS that the system is done, so it can cut power. Pretty much all the vendors supply a script like that. Prior to S10, you could hack something like this into the /etc/rc0 script or perhaps into /etc/inittab. I don't think that works now, due to the way SMF works. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
