I asked:
> Dear Sun Gurus,
>
> Whenever I shutdown the system, I would see these messages just before
> the system goes down:
>
> INIT: failed write of utmpx entry: "s6"
> INIT: failed write of utmpx entry: "rb"
>
> Could anyone let me know what they mean?
Summary:
When a proper shutdown is done, the shutdown process would write
messages to /var/adm directory (man utmpx). In my case, the /var is a
different partition from /. and it gets unmounted first before the shutdown
process can write its messages.
The general consensus is that there is no harm in these messages. For
those want to get rid of them, here's one solution offered:
"What you
can do if you wish to suppress the message, is when you have the /var/
partition (and /var/adm/ if applicable) unmounted, create a /var/adm/
directory in the root partition, and in /var/adm/ put a symlink from utmpx
to /dev/null."
thanks to:
john@a3bgate.nai.net
duane@cris.com
spy@trauco.inf.utfsm.cl
neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
mattb@deakin.edu.au
peterb@uniq.com.au
moutinho@ferrum.metalmat.ufrj.br
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