[ale] "shutdown -r now" vs "init 6" vs "reboot"

[James P. Kinney III]

shutdown -r -t 1 "Bugger off. The plug's been pulled"

shutdown -r -t 30000 "I'm going to haunt you FOREVER"

shutdown -r now "Bugger off. You're screwed anyway 'cause I'm not
waiting on you. Loser."

shutdown -h -t 1 "Hi! I'm your remote admin. I just told the server you
are using to delete all your files. I'll be back in the office after I
get a raise."

shutdown -h now "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

shutdown -r -t 1 "Formating hard drive...."

BOFH trained and certified.

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 10:03 -0400, J. Cary Howell wrote:
> shutdown -r -t 10 "System reboot; please logout now"
> 
> might work a little better for you.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:54 -0400, Christopher Coleman wrote:
> > The commands reboots the system immediately without providing users with 
> > time to close their apps. They work fine on single user systems. On 
> > multi-user systems, shutdown is used to send a message to users 
> > indicating the system is going down and give them time to log out.
> > 
> > shutdown -r 10 "system reboot; logout now"
> > 
> > Will reboot the system in 10 minutes. The message in quotes will be sent 
> > to all logged in users once every minute. When the time is under a 
> > minute remaining, the message will be sent every few seconds.
> > 
> > Jimmy Oliver wrote:
> > > Which is the preferred way to reboot a linux box?  I have always used  
> > > init 6.  The box in question is a RHEL 3 install.  My understanding  
> > > of the RedHat init scripts was that shutdown just called init 6  
> > > anyway.  Can someone give the preferred method, and detail the  
> > > differences between the 3?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Jimmy
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