HALT,REBOOT(8)

NAME
halt, reboot — stop the system.

SYNOPSIS
/etc/halt [-nq]
/etc/reboot [-nq]

DESCRIPTION
Halt and reboot send all processes the warning signal, then wait for 10 seconds, then send all processes the kill signal. After that the system is either halted or rebooted.

FLAGS

-n  Don't sync before reboot or halt.

-q  Do a 'quick' reboot or halt, don't send the warning signal.

DIAGNOSTICS
If you're not the superuser, you will get the message 'Can't idle init'.

BUGS
Reboot and halt shouldn't be called directly, but only by a frontend like shutdown(1). Even better, they should be builtin to shutdown. However, historical practice prevents this.

Halt and reboot are just links to the same program, so the man page should be installed twice, as halt.8 and as reboot.8.

SEE ALSO
shutdown(8), init(1).

AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org