Introduction

A variety of topics related to startup and shutdown scripts are covered in this chapter, including:

  • The overall organization of the startup and shutdown mechanism in HP-UX

  • Example of a startup file

  • /etc/inittab file

  • shutdown command

  • Virtual Partitions (vPars) and startup

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