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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)shutdown.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 33.\" $Id: shutdown.8,v 1.7 1998/12/11 10:25:55 bde Exp $ 34.\" 35.Dd Dec 11, 1998 36.Dt SHUTDOWN 8 37.Os BSD 4 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm shutdown 40.Nd "close down the system at a given time" 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm shutdown 43.Op Fl 44.Op Fl hknpr 45.Ar time 46.Op Ar warning-message ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Nm Shutdown 49provides an automated shutdown procedure for super-users 50to nicely notify users when the system is shutting down, 51saving them from system administrators, hackers, and gurus, who 52would otherwise not bother with such niceties. 53.Pp 54The following options are available: 55.Bl -tag -width indent 56.It Fl h 57The system is halted at the specified 58.Ar time 59when 60.Nm 61executes 62.Xr halt 8 . 63.It Fl k 64Kick everybody off. 65The 66.Fl k 67option 68does not actually halt the system, but leaves the 69system multi-user with logins disabled (for all but super-user). 70.It Fl n 71Prevent the normal 72.Xr sync 2 73before stopping. 74.It Fl p 75The system will turn the power off after shutdown if it can. 76.It Fl r 77.Nm Shutdown 78executes 79.Xr reboot 8 80at the specified 81.Ar time . 82.It Ar time 83.Ar Time 84is the time at which 85.Nm 86will bring the system down and 87may be the word 88.Ar now 89(indicating an immediate shutdown) or 90specify a future time in one of two formats: 91.Ar +number , 92or 93.Ar yymmddhhmm , 94where the year, month, and day may be defaulted 95to the current system values. The first form brings the system down in 96.Ar number 97minutes and the second at the absolute time specified. 98.It Ar warning-message 99Any other arguments comprise the warning message that is broadcast 100to users currently logged into the system. 101.It Fl 102If 103.Ql Fl 104is supplied as an option, the warning message is read from the standard 105input. 106.El 107.Pp 108At intervals, becoming more frequent as apocalypse approaches 109and starting at ten hours before shutdown, warning messages are displayed 110on the terminals of all users logged in. Five minutes before 111shutdown, or immediately if shutdown is in less than 5 minutes, 112logins are disabled by creating 113.Pa /etc/nologin 114and copying the 115warning message there. If this file exists when a user attempts to 116log in, 117.Xr login 1 118prints its contents and exits. The file is 119removed just before 120.Nm 121exits. 122.Pp 123At shutdown time a message is written in the system log, containing the 124time of shutdown, who initiated the shutdown and the reason. 125A terminate 126signal is then sent to 127.Xr init 8 128to bring the system down to single-user state (depending on above 129options). 130The time of the shutdown and the warning message 131are placed in 132.Pa /etc/nologin 133and should be used to 134inform the users about when the system will be back up 135and why it is going down (or anything else). 136.Sh FILES 137.Bl -tag -width /etc/nologin -compact 138.It Pa /etc/nologin 139tells login not to let anyone log in 140.El 141.Sh SEE ALSO 142.Xr login 1 , 143.Xr wall 1 , 144.Xr nologin 5 , 145.Xr halt 8 , 146.Xr reboot 8 147.Sh BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY 148The hours and minutes in the second time format may be separated by 149a colon (``:'') for backward compatibility. 150.Sh HISTORY 151The 152.Nm 153command appeared in 154.Bx 4.0 . 155