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Difficulty | Easy (rss) |
Root privileges | Yes |
Requirements | shutdown command |
Time | N/A |
You need to use the shutdown command to shuts down the server system powered by Linux operating systems. The syntax is:
shutdown [options]
The shutdown command power down the system in a secure way. All logged-in users are notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked. To shutdown server immediately type the following command as root user:
shutdown -h now
OR
shutdown -h 0
OR
sudo shutdown -h now
You can also use the following commands as root user to shutdown and stop the system:
poweroff
OR
halt
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