Chapter 10: Understanding Shutdown and Reboot Commands

By this point in your career, you most likely know the basic commands for shutting down or rebooting a text-mode Linux server. In this chapter, we'll look at some things that are more specific to the systemd method. So, bear with me. There's a chance that you might learn something that you didn't know before.

Specific topics in this chapter include the following:

• Shutting down with systemctl
• Halting with systemctl
• Rebooting with systemctl
• Using shutdown instead of systemctl

If you're ready, let's go.