openrc-shutdown(8)

openrc-shutdown(8) 💅

okay bestie, this is the System Manager's Manual page for openrc-shutdown — the utility that brings the system down. yes, that kind of page. grab a strawberry 🍓 and let’s go.

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✨ NAME ✨

openrc-shutdown — bring the system down 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

openrc-shutdown [-c, --cancel]
openrc-shutdown [-R, --reexec]
openrc-shutdown [-w, --write-only]
openrc-shutdown [-d, --no-write] [-D, --dry-run] [-H, --halt] time
openrc-shutdown [-d, --no-write] [-D, --dry-run] [-K, --kexec] time
openrc-shutdown [-d, --no-write] [-D, --dry-run] [-p, --poweroff] time
openrc-shutdown [-d, --no-write] [-D, --dry-run] [-r, --reboot] time
openrc-shutdown [-d, --no-write] [-D, --dry-run] [-s, --single] time

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

openrc-shutdown is the utility that communicates with openrc-init(8) to bring down the system or to instruct openrc-init to re-execute itself. It supports the following options, and yes, we are going through every single one:

the options, bestie ✨

• -c, --cancel — cancels a pending shutdown. 🛑
• -d, --no-write — do not write the wtmp boot record. 🚫📝
• -D, --dry-run — prints the action that would be taken without executing it. this is to allow testing. 👀
• -H, --halt — stops all services, kills all remaining processes, and halts the system. 💀
• -K, --kexec — stops all services, kills all processes, and boots directly into a new kernel loaded via kexec(8). 🔥
• -p, --poweroff — stops all services, kills all processes, and powers off the system. 🔌
• -R, --reexec — instructs openrc-init to re-exec itself. this should be used after an upgrade of OpenRC if you are using openrc-init as your init process. 🔁
• -r, --reboot — stops all services, kills all processes, and reboots the system. 🔄
• -s, --single — stops all services, kills all processes, and moves to single user mode. 🧘
• -w, --write-only — writes a wtmp shutdown record and does nothing else. 📝

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

openrc-init(8), kexec(8), — that’s the list, no cap. 🌈

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🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> — iconic. 👑

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that’s a wrap, bestie — source/version OpenRC, dated May 22, 2017, manual openrc-shutdown(8) 💖