Name
shutdown
Synopsis
shutdown [options] when [message]
Description
System administration command. Terminate all processing. when may be a specific time (in hh:mm format), a number of minutes to wait (in + m format), or now. A broadcast message notifies all users to log off the system. Processes are signaled with SIGTERM, to allow them to exit gracefully. /etc/init is called to perform the actual shutdown, which consists of placing the system in runlevel 1. Only privileged users can execute the shutdown command. Broadcast messages, default or defined, are displayed at regular intervals during the grace period; the closer the shutdown time, the more frequent the message.
Options
- -c
Cancel a shutdown that is in progress.
- -f
Reboot fast, by suppressing the normal call to fsck when rebooting.
- -h
Halt the system when shutdown is complete.
- -k
Print the warning message, but suppress actual shutdown.
- -n
Perform shutdown without a call to init.
- -r
Reboot the system when shutdown is complete.
- -t sec
Ensure a sec-second delay between killing processes and changing the runlevel.
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