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@(#)shutdown.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.Dd $Mdocdate: February 4 2023 $ .Dt SHUTDOWN 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm shutdown .Nd close down the system at a given time .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm shutdown .Op Fl .Op Fl dfhknpr .Ar time .Op Ar warning-message ... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm provides an automated shutdown procedure for superusers 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. When the .Nm command is issued without options, the system is placed in single user mode at the indicated time after shutting down all system services.
p Users in the .Va _shutdown group can also run the .Nm command. Historically this permission was tied to the .Va operator group.
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width Ds t Fl d When used with .Fl h , .Fl p , or .Fl r causes system to perform a dump. This option is useful for debugging system dump procedures or capturing the state of a corrupted or misbehaving system. See .Xr savecore 8 for information on how to recover this dump. t Fl f Create the file
a /fastboot so that the file systems will .Em not be checked by .Xr fsck 8 during the next boot. (See .Xr rc 8 ) . t Fl h The system is halted at the specified .Ar time when .Nm execs .Xr halt 8 . 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 superuser). t Fl n When used with .Fl h , .Fl p , or .Fl r prevents the normal .Xr sync 2 before stopping the system. t Fl p The system is powered down at the specified .Ar time . The .Fl p flag is passed on to .Xr halt 8 , causing machines which support automatic power down to do so after halting. t Fl r .Nm execs .Xr reboot 8 at the specified .Ar time . t Ar time .Ar time is the time at which .Nm will bring the system down and may be the word .Ar now (indicating an immediate shutdown) or specify 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 /etc/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 in the system log, containing the time of shutdown, who initiated the shutdown and the reason. A terminate signal is then sent to .Em init to bring the system down to single-user state (depending on above options). The time of the shutdown and the warning message are placed in
a /etc/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 You can cancel a scheduled shutdown with the .Xr kill 1 command by killing the shutdown process. .Sh FILES l -tag -width /etc/rc.shutdown -compact t Pa /etc/nologin tells login not to let anyone log in t Pa /etc/rc.shutdown run by .Xr rc 8 before the system is shutdown t Pa /fastboot tells .Xr rc 8 not to run .Xr fsck 8 during the next boot .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kill 1 , .Xr login 1 , .Xr wall 1 , .Xr halt 8 , .Xr rc.shutdown 8 , .Xr reboot 8 .Sh STANDARDS The hours and minutes in the second time format may be separated by a colon
q Sq : for backward compatibility. .Sh HISTORY A .Nm command first appeared outside of Bell Labs in PWB/UNIX 1.0 and has been available since x 4.1 .