shutdown using init

October 1st, 2006 mysurface Posted in Admin, init | Hits: 13511 | 2 Comments »

init are usually use to initialize linux runlevel, but 0 are run level of halt and 6 are run level of reboot.

Therefore to halt the machine, I do this

sudo init 0

I need root privilege to run init.

To reboot,

sudo init 6
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2 Responses to “shutdown using init”

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    October 15th, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    [...] It have a lot of way to shutdown/reboot your machine, the easier way is using shutdown button in gnome or KDE menu ;p The another way is using ‘init’ which already intro in Shutdown Using ‘init’. Now I will intro a another command – ’shutdown’. [...]

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    February 28th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

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