CentOS Linux Server Guide

Linux Reboot and Shutdown

SHUTDOWN

The shutdown command are used to turn off and power down the system, there are 4 Linux command you can use to shutdown your system

Command Description

shutdown -h now this will shutdown all the services then power down the system

poweroff this will shutdown all the services then power down the system

halt this will shutdown all the services then power down the system

init 0 this will shutdown all the services then power down the system

[root@srv1 ~]# poweroff

Broadcast message from root (pts/1) (Sat Nov 28 07:55:24 2009):

The system is going down for system halt NOW!

REBOOT(RESTART)

Rebooting command is to shutdown all the exiting running process then restart the system.

Command Description

Reboot Reboot the system

Shutdown -r Reboot the system

init 6 Reboot the system

[root@srv1 ~]# init 6
[root@srv1 ~]#

Screen capture above shows the shutting down of the CentOS Linux system

For GUI, when you are login into the system,you can navigate to SYSTEM > SHUTDOWN, you can perform restart the system and shut down using the same interface.

You can also Restart and Shutdown the system using on the Login page. Just navigate to Restart or Shutdown at the bottom screen and click on respective icons.

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