[OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

[Kevin J. Woolley]

On 28 March 2011 09:32, John McEntee <jmcentee at stirling-dynamics.com> wrote:

> Now, who in their right mind would suggest you have to check uname every
> time before changing run levels.

It kind of makes sense -- if you're on Solaris you need to use
"shutdown -i 6 -g 0" to reboot, and on everything else you need to use
"reboot" or "shutdown -r".  ;)

(This holds true for at least the BSDs, OS X (IIRC), Linux, HP-UX, and AIX.)

Cheers,

kjw