shutdown(8) [bsd man page]
SHUTDOWN(8) System Manager's Manual SHUTDOWN(8) NAME
shutdown - close down the system at a given time SYNOPSIS
shutdown [ -k ] [ -r ] [ -h ] [ -f ] [ -n ] time [ warning-message ... ] DESCRIPTION
Shutdown provides an automated shutdown procedure which a super-user can use to notify users nicely when the system is shutting down, sav- ing them from system administrators, hackers, and gurus, who would otherwise not bother with niceties. Time is the time at which shutdown will bring the system down and may be the word now (indicating an immediate shutdown) or 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 (as a 24-hour clock). At intervals which get closer together as apocalypse approaches, warning messages are displayed at the terminals of all users on the sys- tem. Five minutes before shutdown, or immediately if shutdown is in less than 5 minutes, logins are disabled by creating /etc/nologin and writing a message there. If this file exists when a user attempts to log in, login(1) prints its contents and exits. The file is removed just before shutdown exits. At shutdown time a message is written in the system log, containing the time of shutdown, who ran shutdown and the reason. Then a termi- nate signal is sent to init to bring the system down to single-user state. Alternatively, if -r, -h, or -k was used, then shutdown will exec reboot(8), halt(8), or avoid shutting the system down (respectively). (If it isn't obvious, -k is to make people think the system is going down!) With the -f option, shutdown arranges, in the manner of fastboot(8), that when the system is rebooted the file systems will not be checked. The -n option prevents the normal sync(2) before stopping. The time of the shutdown and the warning message are placed in /etc/nologin and should be used to inform the users about when the system will be back up and why it is going down (or anything else). FILES
/etc/nologin tells login not to let anyone log in SEE ALSO
login(1), reboot(8), fastboot(8) BUGS
Only allows you to kill the system between now and 23:59 if you use the absolute time for shutdown. 4th Berkeley Distribution November 16, 1996 SHUTDOWN(8)
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SHUTDOWN(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SHUTDOWN(8) NAME
shutdown -- close down the system at a given time SYNOPSIS
shutdown [-Ddfhknprvxz] [-b bootstr] time [message ... | -] DESCRIPTION
shutdown provides an automated shutdown procedure for super-users to nicely notify users when the system is shutting down, saving them from system administrators, hackers, and gurus, who would otherwise not bother with such niceties. Available friendlinesses: -b bootstr The given bootstr is passed to reboot(8) for the benefit of those systems that can pass boot arguments to the firmware. Currently, this only affects sun3 and sparc machines. -d shutdown will pass the -d flag to reboot(8) or halt(8) to request a kernel core dump. If neither the -h or -r flags are specified, then -d also implies -r. -f shutdown arranges, in the manner of fastboot(8), for the file systems not to be checked on reboot. -h The system is halted at the specified time, using halt(8). -k Kick everybody off. The -k option does not actually halt the system, but leaves the system multi-user with logins disabled (for all but super-user). -n Prevent the normal sync(2) before stopping. -p The system is powered down at the specified time, using poweroff(8). If the powerdown fails, or the system does not support soft- ware powerdown, the system will simply halt instead. -r The system is rebooted at the specified time, using reboot(8). -v To enable verbose messages on the console, pass -v to reboot(8) or halt(8). -x To enable debugging messages on the console, pass -x to reboot(8) or halt(8). -z To silence some shutdown messages on the console, pass -z to reboot(8) or halt(8). -D Prevents shutdown from detaching from the tty with fork(2)/ exit(3). time Time is the time at which shutdown will bring the system down and may be the word now or a future time in one of two formats: +number, or [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]hh]mm, where the century, year, month, day, and hour may be defaulted to the current system values. The first form brings the system down number minutes from the current time; the second brings the system down at the absolute time specified. If the century is not specified, it defaults to 1900 for years between 69 and 99, or 2000 for years between 0 and 68. A leading zero in the ``yy'' value is not optional. message ... Any other arguments comprise the warning message that is broadcast to users currently logged into the system. - If - is supplied as the only argument after the time, the warning message is read from the standard input. BEHAVIOR
At intervals, becoming more frequent as apocalypse approaches and starting at ten hours before shutdown, warning messages are displayed on the terminals of all users logged in. Five minutes before shutdown, or immediately if shutdown is in less than 5 minutes, logins are dis- abled by creating /etc/nologin and copying the warning message there. If this file exists when a user attempts to log in, login(1) prints its contents and exits. The file is removed just before shutdown exits. At shutdown time, a message is written in the system log containing the time of shutdown, who initiated the shutdown, and the reason. Next a message is printed announcing the start of the system shutdown hooks. Then the shutdown hooks in /etc/rc.shutdown are run, and a message is printed indicating that they have completed. After a short delay, shutdown runs halt(8) or reboot(8), or sends a terminate signal to init(8) to bring the system down to single-user mode, depending on the choice of options. The time of the shutdown and the warning message are placed in /etc/nologin and should be used to tell the users why the system is going down, when it will be back up, and to share any other pertinent information. FILES
/etc/nologin tells login(1) not to let anyone log in /fastboot tells rc(8) not to run fsck(8) when rebooting /etc/rc.shutdown System shutdown commands SEE ALSO
login(1), wall(1), fastboot(8), halt(8), init(8), poweroff(8), reboot(8), rescue(8) BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
The hours and minutes in the second time format may be separated by a colon (``:'') for backward compatibility. HISTORY
The shutdown command appeared in 4.0BSD. BSD
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