Manual page for HALT(8)
halt - stop the processor
SYNOPSIS
/usr/etc/halt
[
-nqy
]
DESCRIPTION
halt
writes out any information pending to the disks and then
stops the processor.
halt
normally logs the system shutdown to the system log daemon,
syslogd.8
and places a shutdown record in the login accounting file
/var/adm/wtmp.
These actions are inhibited if the
-n
or
-q
options are present.
OPTIONS
- -n
-
Prevent the
sync
before stopping.
- -q
-
Do a quick halt. No graceful shutdown is attempted.
- -y
-
Halt the system, even from a dialup terminal.
FILES
- /var/adm/wtmp
-
login accounting file
SEE ALSO
reboot.8
shutdown.8
syslogd.8
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