The “shutdown” command is used to shut down, reboot, or power off a server. Which can be used to initiate a graceful shutdown or reboot of the server, with graceful shutdown it allows running processes to finish their work and perform necessary cleanup before the system is shut down.
- About shutdown: To bring the system down
- Comes From : upstart-0.6.5
- Configuration Files:
- Path: /sbin/shutdown
Examples:
1. To shutdown a system
| # shutdown |
2. To reboot a system
| # shutdown -r |
3. To halt a system
| # shutdown -h |
4. To halt the system after bringing down
| # shutdown -H |
5. To poweroff the system
| # shutdown -P |
6. To cancel a running shutdown
| # shutdown -c |
7. To only send out the warning messages
| # shutdown -k |
Related Commands: runlevel, init, telinit, reboot
