NAME
reboot, halt
— stopping and restarting the
system
SYNOPSIS
halt |
[-dnpq] |
reboot |
[-dnq] |
DESCRIPTION
The halt and
reboot utilities flush the file system cache to
disk, execute the rc.d(8) scripts specified by the
pkg_scripts variable defined in
rc.conf(8) in a reverse order, run the system shutdown script, send
all running processes a SIGTERM (and subsequently a
SIGKILL), and, respectively, halt or restart the
system. The action is logged, including entering a shutdown record into the
login accounting file.
The options are as follows:
-d- Causes system to create a dump before rebooting. This option is useful for debugging system dump procedures or capturing the state of a corrupted or misbehaving system. See savecore(8) for information on how to recover this dump.
-n- Prevent file system cache from being flushed. This option should probably not be used.
-p- Causes the system to power down, if it is being halted, and the hardware
supports automatic power down.
See also the description of powerdown, below.
-q- Quick. The system is halted or restarted quickly and ungracefully, and only the flushing of the file system cache is performed. This option should probably not be used.
Normally, the shutdown(8) utility is used when the system needs to be halted or restarted, giving users advance warning of their impending doom.
FILES
- /etc/rc.shutdown
- Script which is run at shutdown time. If it sets the variable
powerdown to “YES”,
haltwill attempt to power down the machine after it has halted.
SEE ALSO
reboot(2), utmp(5), boot_alpha(8), boot_amd64(8), boot_hp300(8), boot_hppa(8), boot_hppa64(8), boot_i386(8), boot_luna88k(8), boot_macppc(8), boot_mvme68k(8), boot_mvme88k(8), boot_sparc(8), boot_sparc64(8), boot_vax(8), boot_zaurus(8), rc.d(8), rc.shutdown(8), savecore(8), shutdown(8), sync(8)
HISTORY
A reboot command appeared in
Version 6 AT&T UNIX.