HALT(8)

NAME
halt - stop the system.
reboot - restart the system.

SYNOPSIS
/sbin/halt [-fnwd]
/sbin/reboot [-fnwd]

DESCRIPTION
Halt brings the system to a halted state where you can power it off safely. Reboot brings the system to a halted state, then reboots it.

If the system is running in multiuser mode, halt and reboot will signal init to bring the system down to the requested state. If the system is in single-user mode, they will attempt do shut down the system themselves.

OPTIONS

-f  Force the reboot or halt; Don't ask init to do the work, even if the system is running in multiuser mode.

-n  Normally, halt and reboot attempt to flush buffers before they tell init to shut the system down. -n disables that.

-d  Don't write a utmp record before the system is shut down.

-w  Write a utmp record, but don't actually try to shut the system down.

SEE ALSO
utmp(5), shutdown(8), telinit(8), init(8)

AUTHOR
David Parsons (orc@pell.chi.il.us)