Re: Shutting down a Sun System with a Shell Script

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From: David Wiseman
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 1988 04:05

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Fred J. Stellabotte asks questions about taking suns down to single user mode
to run backup.

I've been playing with this for a little while and I may have a way to do
it.  First a note of caution: I haven't tried this yet but I cannot see
any reason why it won't work.

Build a procedure that replaces /etc/rc.boot with another shell script
(being careful not to lose rc.boot) and then forces a reboot. The
replacement rc.boot would do whatever you wanted then replace itself with
the original rc.boot and force a reboot again.

Has anyone out there tried this yet? Can anyone tell me why this is a
really stupid idea that should have been left in a wastebasket?

magi    David Wiseman, Network Manager
        Department of Computer Science
        The University of Western Ontario
        London Ontario Canada N6A 5B7

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Subject: Re: Shutting down a Sun System with a Shell Script
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