HOW TO SHUTDOWN AND REBOOT IN LINUX

By | July 21, 2016

The simple syntax or format for doing this is;

SHUTDOWN…

# shutdown

#shutdown <options> TIME [message]

OPTIONS:

  • p – power off
  • h – halt (a sort of “sleep” or ”hibernate”)
  • r – reboot
  • c – cancel shutdown (after initiating a shutdown within a specified time, use this option to cancel it)

 

To put the system off in 5 minutes time the command can be used this way;

# shutdown 5 “system is going down for the installation of new updates”

REBOOTING…

#reboot

Happy Linux’NG!


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