How many run states are there in Solaris?

Answer 1

Hi,

There are 8 Run States are there in Solaris.

1) INIT 0 = to boot in to OBP Prompt

2) INIT S = to Boot into Single user mode or maintainence mode,

(in INIT S only Critical filesystems are mounted)

3) INIT 1 = to boot into Singler user mode

(in INIT 1 all the file systems in /etc/vfstab need to mount)

4) INIT 2 = to boot into Multi user mode

(in INIT 2 no network demons will work)

5) INIT 3 = to boot into default multiuser mode

(in INIT 3 all the Services and demons will work)

6) INIT 4 = Still not in use

7) INIT 5 = Shutdown

8) INIT 6 = Reboot

Hope this helps..

Regards

Srinivas