June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
halt
halt [options]Prepares the system and then terminates all processes, usually ending
with a hardware power-off. During preparation, all filesystem caches
are flushed, and running processes are sent
SIGTERM followed by SIGTERM.
-l
Don’t log the halt via syslog
(i.e., mach_kernel: syncing disks...).
-n
Don’t flush filesystem caches. Should not be used indiscriminately.
-q
The filesystem caches are flushed, but the system is otherwise halted ungracefully. Should not be used indiscriminately.
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