Re: HOW TO DOWN UNIX SERVER!!!

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From: Richard Howlett
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:00

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JohnnyRay wrote:
> 
> Have UNIX server at work and need some BASIC commands  for UNIX. Also the
> down command>

"BASIC commands for UNIX" - that's a little vague...
What flavour of UNIX? There are many. 

The most useful command a newbie should know is "man" :-)
Eg: man ls
will show you the manual page for the ls command.

Once you have logged in change directory into /usr/bin using the command:
cd /usr/bin
Most of the commands in this directory have manual pages - use man to look
at any that take your fancy!

As for "the down command" - I presume you mean to shut the system down?
If you are logged in as root (or you have root privileges) then the command:
shutdown -y -g0
will take the system down immediately (-g0) with no other user intervention
(-y). NOTE: the options may be different on your flavour of unix. Use man
shutdown to find out!
Another way which is pretty much standard is: init 0

-- 
Richard Howlett

mailto:richard@howie.org.uk

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