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
• Logs, Log collector, log management, log explorer, Linux logging, docker logs, minikube logs, Vector, Logstash, Filebeat, promtail, logfmt, Elasticsearch, fluentd, Mezmo (LogDNA), Scalyr, Loggly, Loki, tlog, cockpit, NXLog, Winston, Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, Logz.io, Logflare, Coralogix