Shutdown

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• https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/shutdown.8.html

shutdown

shutdown -c

Example

shutdown
Broadcast message from root@MYNEWVM on pts/1 (Fri 2023-03-31 17:00:00 CEST):

The system is going down for poweroff at Fri 2023-03-31 17:01:00 CEST!

Shutdown scheduled for Fri 2023-03-31 17:01:00 CEST, use 'shutdown -c' to cancel

grep -iv ': starting\|kernel: .*: Power Button\|watching system buttons\|Stopped Cleaning Up\|Started Crash recovery kernel' /var/log/syslog | grep -iw 'recover[a-z]*\|power[a-z]*\|shut[a-z ]*down\|rsyslogd\|ups'

grep -iv ': starting\|kernel: .*: Power Button\|watching system buttons\|Stopped Cleaning Up\|Started Crash recovery kernel' /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog /var/log/apcupsd* | grep -iw 'recover[a-z]*\|power[a-z]*\|shut[a-z ]*down\|rsyslogd\|ups'

Related commands

• virsh shutdown
• virsh destroy
• udisksctl power-off
• no shutdown
• last reboot, last shutdown

systemd-update-utmp reboot
systemd-update-utmp shutdown

LOG: received fast shutdown request

See also

• reboot, poweroff, halt, ACPI, systemctl reboot, shutdown, needrestart, needs-restarting
• shutdown