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@(#)shutdown.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/27/95
$FreeBSD: releng/10.2/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.8 248535 2013-03-19 21:40:14Z joel $
.Dd March 19, 2013 .Dt SHUTDOWN 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm shutdown , .Nm poweroff .Nd "close down the system at a given time" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl .Oo .Fl h | Fl p | .Fl r | Fl k .Oc .Oo .Fl o .Op Fl n .Oc .Ar time .Op Ar warning-message ... .Nm poweroff .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility provides an automated shutdown procedure for super-users to nicely notify users when the system is shutting down, saving them from system administrators, hackers, and gurus, who would otherwise not bother with such niceties.
p The following options are available: l -tag -width indent t Fl h The system is halted at the specified .Ar time . t Fl p The system is halted and the power is turned off (hardware support required) at the specified .Ar time . t Fl r The system is rebooted at the specified .Ar time . t Fl k Kick everybody off. The .Fl k option does not actually halt the system, but leaves the system multi-user with logins disabled (for all but super-user). t Fl o If one of the .Fl h , .Fl p or .Fl r options are specified, .Nm will execute .Xr halt 8 or .Xr reboot 8 instead of sending a signal to .Xr init 8 . t Fl n If the .Fl o option is specified, prevent the file system cache from being flushed by passing .Fl n to .Xr halt 8 or .Xr reboot 8 . This option should probably not be used. t Ar time .Ar Time is the time at which .Nm will bring the system down and may be the case-insensitive word .Ar now (indicating an immediate shutdown) or a future time in one of two formats: .Ar +number , or .Ar yymmddhhmm , where the year, month, and day may be defaulted to the current system values. The first form brings the system down in .Ar number minutes and the second at the absolute time specified. t Ar warning-message Any other arguments comprise the warning message that is broadcast to users currently logged into the system. t Fl If .Sq Fl is supplied as an option, the warning message is read from the standard input. .El
p At intervals, becoming more frequent as apocalypse approaches and starting at ten hours before shutdown, warning messages are displayed on the terminals of all users logged in. Five minutes before shutdown, or immediately if shutdown is in less than 5 minutes, logins are disabled by creating
a /var/run/nologin and copying the warning message there. If this file exists when a user attempts to log in, .Xr login 1 prints its contents and exits. The file is removed just before .Nm exits.
p At shutdown time a message is written to the system log, containing the time of shutdown, the person who initiated the shutdown and the reason. The corresponding signal is then sent to .Xr init 8 to respectively halt, reboot or bring the system down to single-user state (depending on the above options). The time of the shutdown and the warning message are placed in
a /var/run/nologin and should be used to inform the users about when the system will be back up and why it is going down (or anything else).
p A scheduled shutdown can be canceled by killing the .Nm process (a .Dv SIGTERM should suffice). The
a /var/run/nologin file that .Nm created will be removed automatically.
p When run without options, the .Nm utility will place the system into single user mode at the .Ar time specified.
p Calling .Dq Nm poweroff is equivalent to running: d -literal -offset indent shutdown -p now .Ed .Sh FILES l -tag -width /var/run/nologin -compact t Pa /var/run/nologin tells .Xr login 1 not to let anyone log in .El .Sh EXAMPLES Reboot the system in 30 minutes and display a warning message on the terminals of all users currently logged in:
p .Dl # shutdown -r +30 "System will reboot" .Sh COMPATIBILITY The hours and minutes in the second time format may be separated by a colon (``:'') for backward compatibility. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kill 1 , .Xr login 1 , .Xr wall 1 , .Xr nologin 5 , .Xr halt 8 , .Xr init 8 , .Xr reboot 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm utility appeared in x 4.0 .