Well no-one told me that it changed ( the init part) and i still have some 
solaris 10 and 11 servers so it's a habbit to use the init commands. 

I will check these new commands asap. 

Kind regards, 

The out-side

Op 26 jan. 2013 om 20:47 heeft Sašo Kiselkov <[email protected]> het 
volgende geschreven:

> On 01/26/2013 08:15 PM, Roel_D wrote:
>> I installed OI yesterday on VMWare server. After that i did some alterings 
>> and installed postgres and so. It all worked fine untill i ran out of memory 
>> so i did "Shutdown -y ". Bit this lead to single usermode so i did a init 5 
>> from the console. This didn't work so i halted the machine by vmware
>> 
>> After giving oi more memory i restarted it and then strange problems arose:
>> Nsswitch.conf was without dns, nslookup.conf was empty, postgres lost every 
>> setting but the database was still there. 
>> I put everything into place and did a restart to test it. I did 'init 6' and 
>> ... Again everything was scrambled. No dns settings, no postgres ( i even 
>> had to reinstall the postgres service) and a lot was lost. 
>> 
>> Any ideas how this can happen?
> 
> No ideas yet, but why do you power off your machine with such init-foo
> magic? Why not simply "poweroff" or "reboot"? Since Solaris Nevada
> sysv-style usage of "init" has been made obsolete. They also do not
> allow you to use the advanced reboot capabilities available since Nevada
> ("reboot -e" and "reboot -f").
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Saso

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