NAME

shutdown — bring down the system

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are notified that the system is going down, and login(1) is blocked.

By default, shutdown puts the system into single user mode. Rebooting and halting the system can be done using the following options:

-c

Cancel an ongoing shutdown.

-f

Enable fast booting; skip fsck(8) on next boot.

-F

Force run of fsck(8) on next boot.

-h

Halt the system.

-k

Don't really shutdown; only send the warning messages to everybody.

-P

Poweroff the system.

-r

Reboot the system.

now

Shutdown without further waiting.

+mins

Wait mins minutes before shutting down.

message

Message displayed to all users, defaults to "system is going down".

UNSUPPORTED OPTIONS

This version of shutdown is based on runit(8), the following features are not supported:

-t secs

to wait secs seconds between SIGKILL and SIGTERM on shutdown is silently ignored.

-a

Use /etc/shutdown.allow.

-H

Drop into boot monitor.

-n

Don't call init(8).

hh:mm

Absolute time specification is not implemented.

EXAMPLES

Turn off the system:

SEE ALSO

fsck(8), halt(8), init(8), poweroff(8), reboot(8), runit(8), runsvchdir(8)

AUTHOR

Leah Neukirchen, leah@vuxu.org.