"Huge" wrote in message
...

it doesn't matter what OS he's running: power cyckling is the only
option when all other methods have failed.

I'm just trying to remember the last time I had to reboot a Solaris system
because "all other methods have failed", bearing in mind that I've been
responsible for thousands of them over decades. And the answer is ... so
rarely
does it happen that I cannot remember.

I had hundreds of SVr5 machines and we used to switch them off whenever we
had an excuse.. it was one way of testing the journaling file system to see
if it worked as required.