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shutdown

Section: SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands (1B)
Updated: 11 Oct 1994
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NAME

shutdown - close down the system at a given time  

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/shutdown [-fhknr] time [warning-message...]  

DESCRIPTION

shutdown provides an automated procedure to notify users when the system is to be shut down. time specifies when shutdown will bring the system down; it may be the word now (indicating an immediate shutdown), or it may specify a future time in one of two formats: +number and hour:min. The first form brings the system down in number minutes, and the second brings the system down at the time of day indicated in 24-hour notation.

At intervals that get closer as the apocalypse approaches, warning messages are displayed at terminals of all logged-in users, and of users who have remote mounts on that machine.

At shutdown time a message is written to the system log daemon, syslogd(1M), containing the time of shutdown, the instigator of the shutdown, and the reason. Then a terminate signal is sent to init, which brings the system down to single-user mode.  

OPTIONS

As an alternative to the above procedure, these options can be specified:

-f Arrange, in the manner of fastboot(1B), that when the system is rebooted, the file systems will not be checked.

-h Execute halt(1M).

-k Simulate shutdown of the system. Do not actually shut down the system.

-n Prevent the normal sync(2) before stopping.

-r Execute reboot(1M).

 

FILES

/etc/rmtab remote mounted file system table

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWscpu

 

SEE ALSO

fastboot(1B), login(1), halt(1M), reboot(1M), syslogd(1M), sync(2), rmtab(4), attributes(5)  

NOTES

Only allows you to bring the system down between now and 23:59 if you use the absolute time for shutdown.


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
NOTES

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