Solaris™ 9 System Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 310-014 and 310-015)

Introduction

This chapter addresses topics related to booting and shutting down the system. The first section covers key aspects of the system firmware on Sun SPARC platforms. The boot process is discussed next. The third section describes system run levels, the services available at the different run levels, and how to move between the run levels (including shutdown). Also included is a description of how to add a custom service at a selected run level.