HALT(8) halt HALT(8)

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

SYNOPSIS
       halt [OPTIONS...]

       poweroff [OPTIONS...]

       reboot [OPTIONS...]

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

OPTIONS
       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, or reboot. When specified once,
           this results in an immediate but clean shutdown by the system
           manager. When specified twice, this results in an immediate
           shutdown without contacting the system manager. See the description
           of force in systemctl(1) for more details.

       -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.

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

NOTES
       These are legacy commands available for compatibility only.

SEE ALSO
       systemd(1), systemctl(1), shutdown(8), wall(1)



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