poweroff Command Examples

Power off the system. More information: https://www.manned.org/poweroff.

• Power off the system:

poweroff

• Halt the system (same as halt):

poweroff --halt

• Reboot the system (same as reboot):

poweroff --reboot

• Shut down immediately without contacting the system manager:

poweroff --force

• Write the wtmp shutdown entry without shutting down the system:

poweroff --wtmp-only