2.6.1 Answers

2.7 Exercises

Provided here are some exercises you may wish to perform:

  1. Change your bootlist to boot over the network over your Token Ring adapter on the next system boot up.

  2. Use the alog command to find out what events took place during your startup process.

  3. Shutdown and restart your system using the shutdown command.

  4. You have just powered on an external tape drive. Use cfgmgr to bring that tape drive into an available state and ensure that you see all the messages with the cfgmgr command.

  5. Add an application to your shutdown process that gracefully brings down your running databases.

  6. Find out the amount of time your system has been online.

  7. Find out when root last logged onto the system and from which terminal.

  8. Use the mpcfg command to change your Fast IPL flag to true.

Chapter 3. Hardware Assistance