Comments on: Linux Shutdown Command and Logfile

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:49:23 +0000

Great and simple solutions, loved your blog / site.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:17:09 +0000

The post has been updated with additional info.

By: Philippe Petrinko

Philippe Petrinko — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:42:07 +0000

Hi Vivek,

Typos above: missing opening double-quote on 2 lines:

# shutdown 1:00 SERVER DOWN”
# shutdown 18:00 SERVER DOWN”

KUTGW,

- P

By: Johnn

Johnn — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:19:11 +0000

dear,
sir, how to setting auto rebooting on linux?
can your give me details?
thanks..

By: satish

satish — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:26:55 +0000

how to shoutdown linux server i forgt cammand camm…is that in…0

By: Raul

Raul — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:42:33 +0000

This post did not tell how can one identify if the system was warm booted or cold booted (someone physically power cycled it)…

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:30:44 +0000

Abrupt shutdowns leave abrupt messages or no messages at all. see if you get a core or a kernel dump in the messages. What this post did not answer is the question. WHO rebooted the server?

By: Divakar

Divakar — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:33:46 +0000

Hi,

How do we confirm if its abrupt shutdown. Which logs files need to look?

Kindly help.

Thanks

By: Na.Stalin

Na.Stalin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:23:53 +0000

we maintaing the server using fedore core 3 but 3 times in a week we have to restart the server ultimately, what is the reason. most of times mysql error is displayed

By: vivek

vivek — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:56:47 +0000

/etc/shutdown.allow, /fastboot, and /etc/inittab. Try man shutdown for info.

By: Hanafi

Hanafi — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:11:05 +0000

Hi! I’m try to find out the answer on this question.

What is the file that control shutdown in Linux?

Hopefully you can give answer.