[pca] PCA and M5000

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Don Solberg wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:50:43 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Don Solberg <donaldsolberg at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
> To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
> Subject: Re: [pca] PCA and M5000
> 
> I have been doing an "init 6".  I had an instructor slap my hand once by using a reboot command.  ;-)  Interesting question though, I will give reboot a shot.
>
> Thanks!
>
> I''ll chime in here...  Are you guys doing "init 6" or "reboot" after running
> pca?  They do two different things I believe.  Does a "reboot" also hang?
>

My vague memory here is that in Solaris 10, Sun doesn't want people to do 
reboot because a reboot bypasses the setup for Sun Update Manager to do its
thing when the machine starts coming back up.  "Init 6" does that setup during
the shutdown (I think).  However, since you are using pca, you *do* want to 
bypass Sun's piece 'o crap code.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College