command to shutdown 8.10 server

[pshootr]

What is a easy command to tell the server to shutdown? None of my searches have given a clear indication of such command.

[albandy]

sudo shutdown

[bumanie]

Try this
sudo shutdown -h now

[s3a]

What's the difference between those and sudo poweroff?

[louistan3]

sudo halt now works as well i think.

[davec64]

From: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=p/poweroff


poweroff

poweroff [options]

System administration command. Close out filesystems, shut down the system, and power off. Because this command immediately stops all processes, it should be run only in single-user mode. If the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, poweroff calls shutdown -h, then performs a poweroff.


Hope that helps!

[albandy]

with shutdown you can specify what to do: halt, power off the computer, reboot...
poweroff is like an alias to shutdown -h now
reboot is like shutdown -r now will reboot de computer
but with shutdown you can specify the time, for example:
shutdown -h 60 will poweroff the computer in 60 minutes

[BrandonBan6]

man shutdown

Gives a good run down of the shutdown command.

[pshootr]

Thank you for all the replies. I have just been hitting the power button. :-\"