NAME
shutdown - Halt, power off or reboot the machine
SYNOPSIS
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shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [WALL...] |
DESCRIPTION
shutdown may be used to halt, power off, or reboot the machine.
The first argument may be a time string (which is usually "now"). Optionally, this may be followed by a wall message to be sent to all logged-in users before going down.
The time string may either be in the format "hh:mm" for hour/minutes specifying the time to execute the shutdown at, specified in 24h clock format. Alternatively it may be in the syntax "+m" referring to the specified number of minutes m from now. "now" is an alias for "+0", i.e. for triggering an immediate shutdown. If no time argument is specified, "+1" is implied.
Note that to specify a wall message you must specify a time argument, too.
If the time argument is used, 5 minutes before the system goes down the /run/nologin file is created to ensure that further logins shall not be allowed.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
--help
Print a short help text and exit.
-H, --halt
Halt the machine.
-P, --poweroff
Power the machine off (the default).
-r, --reboot
Reboot the machine.
-h
The same as --poweroff, but does not override the action to take if it is "halt". E.g. shutdown --reboot -h means "poweroff", but shutdown --halt -h means "halt".
-k
Do not halt, power off, or reboot, but just write the wall message.
--no-wall
Do not send wall message before halt, power off, or reboot.
-c
Cancel a pending shutdown. This may be used to cancel the effect of an invocation of shutdown with a time argument that is not "+0" or "now".
--show
Show a pending shutdown action and time if there is any.
Added in version 250.
EXIT STATUS
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
COMPATIBILITY
The
shutdown command in previous init systems (including
sysvinit) defaulted to single-user mode instead of powering
off the machine. To change into single-user mode, use
systemctl rescue instead.