shutdown

shutdown - Terminate all running processes in an orderly fashion.

 shutdown(1M) shutdown(1M) NAME shutdown - terminate all processing SYNOPSIS /sbin/shutdown [-h|-r] [-y] [-o] [grace] DESCRIPTION The shutdown command is part of the HP-UX system operation procedures. Its primary function is to terminate all currently running processes in an orderly and cautious manner. shutdown can be used to put the system in single-user mode for administrative purposes such as backup or file system consistency checks (see fsck(1M)), and to halt or reboot the system. By default, shutdown is an interactive program. Options and Arguments shutdown recognizes ...

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