systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net shutdown 8 shutdown Halt, power-off or reboot the machine shutdown OPTIONS TIME WALL shutdown may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine. The first argument may be a time string (which is usually now). Optionally, this may be followed by a wall message to be sent to all logged-in users before going down. The time string may either be in the format hh:mm for hour/minutes specifying the time to execute the shutdown at, specified in 24h clock format. Alternatively it may be in the syntax +m referring to the specified number of minutes m from now. now is an alias for +0, i.e. for triggering an immediate shutdown. If no time argument is specified, +1 is implied. Note that to specify a wall message you must specify a time argument, too. If the time argument is used, 5 minutes before the system goes down the /etc/nologin file is created to ensure that further logins shall not be allowed. The following options are understood: --help Prints a short help text and exits. -H --halt Halt the machine. -P --poweroff Power-off the machine (the default). -r --reboot Reboot the machine. -h Equivalent to --poweroff, unless --halt is specified. -k Don't halt, power-off, reboot, just write wall message. --no-wall Don't send wall message before halt, power-off, reboot. -c Cancel a pending shutdown. This may be used cancel the effect of an invocation of shutdown with a time argument that is not +0 or now. On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. This is a legacy command available for compatibility only. systemd1, systemctl1, halt8, wall1