I need help restarting/shutting down from the root command line, any commands I could use? I don't like hard resetting
3 Answers
shutdown -r now
would do restart.
shutdown -h now
will halt/shutdown the system.
In Ubuntu's case, you can use reboot
or halt
, etc. They all invoke the shutdown
command.
man reboot
may help.
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For shutting down:
sudo poweroff
(It immediately stops all the processes and shuts down the computer.)
For restarting:
sudo reboot
Edit: Once you are already running as a root you needn't type sudo.
See here for more options:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-reboot-linux/
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-reboot-linux/
http://archive.oreilly.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=p/poweroff
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The OP mentioned that he is already inside a root shell, so no
sudo
is required. Otherwise your answer is ok, except that you could add a bit additional explanations what those commands do... (because it appeared in the Low-Quality review queue because of its length)– Byte Commander ♦Mar 30, 2015 at 15:16
The answer for shutting down has already been given. You can reboot the system with
# reboot