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| HALT(8) | halt | HALT(8) |
NAME¶
halt, poweroff, reboot - Halt, power-off or reboot the machine
SYNOPSIS¶
halt [OPTIONS...]
poweroff [OPTIONS...]
reboot [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION¶
halt, poweroff, reboot may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine.
OPTIONS¶
The following options are understood:
--help
Print a short help text and exit.
--halt
Halt the machine, regardless of which one of the three
commands is invoked.
-p, --poweroff
Power-off the machine, regardless of which one of the
three commands is invoked.
--reboot
Reboot the machine, regardless of which one of the three
commands is invoked.
-f, --force
Force immediate halt, power-off, or reboot. When
specified once, this results in an immediate but clean shutdown by the system
manager. When specified twice, this results in an immediate shutdown without
contacting the system manager. See the description of --force in
systemctl(1) for more details.
-w, --wtmp-only
Only write wtmp shutdown entry, do not actually halt,
power-off, reboot.
-d, --no-wtmp
Do not write wtmp shutdown entry.
-n, --no-sync
Don't sync hard disks/storage media before halt,
power-off, reboot.
--no-wall
Do not send wall message before halt, power-off,
reboot.
EXIT STATUS¶
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
NOTES¶
These commands are implemented in a way that preserves compatibility with the original SysV commands. systemctl(1) verbs halt, poweroff, reboot provide the same functionality with some additional features.
SEE ALSO¶
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