systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net halt 8 halt poweroff reboot Halt, power-off or reboot the machine halt OPTIONS poweroff OPTIONS reboot OPTIONS halt, poweroff, reboot may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine. The following options are understood: --help Prints a short help text and exits. --halt Halt the machine, regardless which one of the three commands is invoked. -p --poweroff Power-off the machine, regardless which one of the three commands is invoked. --reboot Reboot the machine, regardless which one of the three commands is invoked. -f --force Force immediate halt, power-off, reboot. Don't contact the init system. -w --wtmp-only Only write wtmp shutdown entry, don't actually halt, power-off, reboot. -d --no-wtmp Don't write wtmp shutdown entry. -n --no-sync Don't sync hard disks/storage media before halt, power-off, reboot. --no-wall Don't send wall message before halt, power-off, reboot. On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. These are legacy commands available for compatibility only. systemd1, systemctl1, shutdown8, wall1