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Shutting Down the System

You can shutdown the system by typing:

# halt

To power off the machine, you can also enter:

# poweroff

If you wish to reboot the machine, you can enter:

# reboot

Alternatively, you can use the shutdown command:

# shutdown <flag> now

where <flag> is one of:

  • -h: to halt
  • -p: to poweroff
  • -r: to reboot

For more information, please see the following manpages:

usersguide/shutdown.txt · Last modified: 2014/11/11 14:52 (external edit)