[indiana-discuss] 100a in VMWare, "pfexec shutdown" command problem

[Knut Anders Hatlen]

"Qingye Jiang (John)" <John.Jiang at Sun.COM> writes:

> Since I could not find the "shutdown" button from the menu, I opened a
> terminal and did a "pfexec shutdown".
>
> X exited, got a console screen that says
>
> opensolaris console login: Dec 28 08:01:55 opensolaris sendmail[780]:
> unable to qualify my own domain name (localhost) -- using short name
> Dec 28 08:01:57 opensolaris sendmail[933]: My unqualified host name
> (localhost) unknown; sleeping fro retry
>
> Then the system just hanged there, alive.

man shutdown says:

     By default, shutdown brings the system to a state where only
     the  console  has access to the operating system. This state
     is called single-user.

Try "pfexec init 5" instead.

To get rid of the message from sendmail, you can execute
/usr/sbin/check-hostname and follow the instructions (it'll probably
tell you to update /etc/hosts).

Hope this helps,

-- 
Knut Anders