REBOOT(8)

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version 1.0.9 · 2 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 REBOOT(8) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the reboot(8) page from the System Administration Utilities squad, and it's lowkey the most powerful little command you'll ever type. one word and the whole machine goes night-night and comes back. iconic behavior honestly. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

reboot — tell Shepherd to stop services and reboot system

like, you're not just yelling at the kernel here. you're politely (well, firmly) asking Shepherd to wrap up all the services first and then reboot. the way that it's a whole coordinated goodbye 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

reboot [OPTIONS...]

Reboot the system. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🔥

but before you slam it, here's your menu of options, and yes you should actually read them:

  • -k, --kexec — reboot using kexec. different route, same destination, main character energy 😌
  • -s, --socket=FILE — send commands to FILE. so instead of the default place, you're like "hey Shepherd, meet me at FILE" 🫶
  • --help — display this help and exit. your lil cheat sheet, no cap 📖
  • --usage — display short usage message and exit. the speedrun version ✨
  • --version — display version information and exit. for when you gotta know exactly which era of Shepherd you're dealing with 👑
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional to the corresponding short options.

translation: if a long option needs an argument, its short twin needs it too. if the long one doesn't, neither does the short one. they match, fr fr. no surprises, no drama 🎀

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found something cursed? not me gaslighting you into thinking it's a feature — go tell the devs:

they wanna hear it, bestie. bug reports are a love language 💜

Copyright © 2025 the Shepherd authors License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

read that again. NO WARRANTY. so if you reboot the wrong server, that's on you, and legally the Shepherd authors are just gonna be like 🧚 okay good luck babe 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The full documentation for reboot is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and reboot programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info shepherd

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, i'll wait, it's giving study session 📚⭐

and that's the whole page!! this manual came to you from GNU, dated February 2026, and you read every single word of it like the absolute scholar you are. slay, go reboot something responsibly 🎀💖✨

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