halt

Name

halt, poweroff, reboot — Halt, power-off or reboot the machine

halt [OPTIONS...]

poweroff [OPTIONS...]

reboot [OPTIONS...]

halt, poweroff, reboot may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine.

The following options are understood:

--help¶: Print a short help text and exit.
--halt¶: Halt the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.
-p, --poweroff¶: Power-off the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.
--reboot¶: Reboot the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.
-f, --force¶: Force immediate halt, power-off, reboot. Do not contact the init system.
-w, --wtmp-only¶: Only write wtmp shutdown entry, do not actually halt, power-off, reboot.
-d, --no-wtmp¶: Do not write wtmp shutdown entry.
--no-wall¶: Do not send wall message before halt, power-off, reboot.

On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

These are legacy commands available for compatibility only.