Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: frank@morgan.com (Frank Wortner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Shutting down a Sun System with a Shell Script Message-ID: <139@hudson.Morgan.COM> Date: 4 Dec 88 03:44:52 GMT References: <8811102135.AA09427@rice.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 23 Nov 88 14:55:55 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 37, message 5 of 12 In article <8811102135.AA09427@rice.edu> Sun-Spots@Rice.edu writes: )X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 21, message 7 of 12 ) )Is there anyway to perform the following steps in a shell script from )crontab on a Sun 3/280s file server: One way to do it is to make an empty file (let's call it /.do-a-dump), and then bring the system to single user. Root's .profile then checks for the existence of /.do-a-dump. If it exists, the .profile runs the desired program. A /etc/reboot brings everyone back to snuff. I used to do incremental backups this way on Suns and an Alliant, so I'm reasonably confident ;-) that it works. -- Frank