Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek E. Terveer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Shutting down a Sun System with a Shell Script Message-ID: <633@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> Date: 11 Dec 88 23:12:55 GMT References: <8811102135.AA09427@rice.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 17 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 28 Nov 88 18:50:05 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 43, message 9 of 15 In article <8811102135.AA09427@rice.edu>, STELLABO@CSHLAB.BITNET writes: > Is there anyway to perform the following steps in a shell script from > crontab on a Sun 3/280s file server: > [steps described] > I have tried putting the above commands in a script and running the script > as super user with 'nohup' set, but my script is killed when the system > goes down to single user. I belive that one way of getting around this problem is to add an entry into your /etc/inittab file (if you have one -- i'm more of a sysV type...) that come into affect when going from init level 2 to level 1. Hope this helps, derek -- Derek Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG w(612)681-6986 h(612)688-0667