I need to restart from the root command line

Question

I need help restarting/shutting down from the root command line, any commands I could use? I don't like hard resetting

score 92 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 31 '15 at 05:05

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shutdown -r now

would do restart.

shutdown -h now

will halt/shutdown the system.

In Ubuntu's case, you can use reboot or halt, etc. They all invoke the shutdown command.

man reboot

may help.

edited Mar 31 '15 at 05:05

Kaz Wolfe

answered Mar 30 '15 at 14:20

Jacek

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"poweroff" works too to shutdown w/o reboot ;) – Rinzwind Mar 30 '15 at 14:21

Muzaffar · Answer 2 · 2015-03-30T15:36:38.493

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For shutting down:

sudo poweroff

(It immediately stops all the processes and shuts down the computer.)

For restarting:

sudo reboot

Edit: Once you are already running as a root you needn't type sudo.

See here for more options:

edited Mar 30 '15 at 15:36

answered Mar 30 '15 at 14:28

Muzaffar

The OP mentioned that he is already inside a root shell, so no sudo is required. Otherwise your answer is ok, except that you could add a bit additional explanations what those commands do... (because it appeared in the Low-Quality review queue because of its length) – Byte Commander Mar 30 '15 at 15:16

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 30 '15 at 14:23

0

The answer for shutting down has already been given. You can reboot the system with

# reboot

answered Mar 30 '15 at 14:23

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