How do I shutdown linux?

petulia3478

The shutdown command has two ways of running, one is to shutdown the system completely to power it off, or shutdown and boot up the system again

The quick way

# shutdown -h 0

or

# shutdown -h now
Shutdown a predefined time

# shutdown -h 20:00 "System will be down for maintenance"
Shutdown and then reboot

# shutdown -r 0

or

# shutdown -r now

The poweroff command, which can manipulate power to hardware before shutting down, halting or rebooting

The init command also bring down the system to certain run levels for maintenance