Shutting down the system without rebooting

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There are two ways of shutting down the system with no reboot.

You can use two methods to shut down the system without rebooting: the SMIT fastpath, or the shutdown command.

Prerequisites

You must have root user authority to shut down the system.

To shut down the system using SMIT:

  1. Log in as root.
  2. At the command prompt, type: 
    smit shutdown

To shut down the system using the shutdown command:

  1. Log in as root.
  2. At the command prompt, type: 
    shutdown