suse man page for quick_halt

quick_halt(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     quick_halt(8)

NAME
       quick_halt - stop the system quickly

SYNOPSIS
       quick_halt, quick_reboot, quick_poweroff

DESCRIPTION
       Fast  system shutdown, that does not carefully stop every single service in the specified order, but just sends a TERM and KILL to everyone
       and makes sure the filesystems get shut down properly prior to reboot/halt/poweroff

DIAGNOSTICS
       If you're not the superuser,  you  will	get  the  message "You need to be root to execute quick_halt".

SEE ALSO
       shutdown(8),init(1),halt(8),poweroff(8),reboot(8),fsck(8)

AUTHOR
       Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>

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