Many thanks to the following folks for sending replies:
Earl Cooke
Richard Smith
Matthew Stier
David Evans
Justin Stringfellow
Nesrin Ozus
Brad Peers
Some asked if the machine has all the patches.
Some reminded me if my /etc/rc2.d/S98y2k issued
shutdown command it could confuse the init because
it was in the middle of booting up. They suggested
that the shutdown get triggered a bit later. Actually
the test program did allow 3 minutes. I didn't mention
it my question because I didn't realize what it was
for until I read your email.
So I am still working on this.
But thanks a lot for your help.
Kevin
---zhen zhang <zhen_zhang@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello, SMs:
>
> A question about shutdown command.
>
> I was trying to run a y2k test program on a Ultra10 (Solaris 2.5.1).
>
> The program puts a S98y2k at /etc/rc2.d. It basically
> resets the date then issues an at job to reboot the
> machine with "/usr/sbin/shutdown -i 6 -g 5 -y".
> (It writes to a counter file and reboots 32 times, each
> for one year)
>
> I did "sync; sync; reboot", when the machine came to
> S98y2k, it set the at job, even broadcasted the message
> "MACHINE IS BEING SHUT DOWN ...", but didn't really
> change run level.
>
> However, if I hand typed "/etc/rc2.d/S98y2k start", it
> worked for the first year, then got stuck for the next
> year as it hit the S98y2k from previous reboot.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
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