Return to halt.8 CVS log

Up to [CSRG BSD Unix] / 43BSDReno / sbin / halt

Annotation of 43BSDReno/sbin/halt/halt.8, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.
                      3: .\"
                      4: .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided
                      5: .\" that: (1) source distributions retain this entire copyright notice and
                      6: .\" comment, and (2) distributions including binaries display the following
                      7: .\" acknowledgement:  ``This product includes software developed by the
                      8: .\" University of California, Berkeley and its contributors'' in the
                      9: .\" documentation or other materials provided with the distribution and in
                     10: .\" all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software.
                     11: .\" Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors may
                     12: .\" be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
                     13: .\" specific prior written permission.
                     14: .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
                     15: .\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
                     16: .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
                     17: .\"
                     18: .\"    @(#)halt.8      6.4 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
                     19: .\"
                     20: .TH <PROGNAME> <SECTION> "June 24, 1990"
                     21: .TH HALT 8 "June 24, 1990"
                     22: .UC 4
                     23: .SH NAME
                     24: halt \- stop the processor
                     25: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     26: .B halt
                     27: [
                     28: .B \-n
                     29: ]
                     30: [
                     31: .B \-q
                     32: ]
                     33: [
                     34: .B \-y
                     35: ]
                     36: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     37: .I Halt
                     38: writes out sandbagged information to the disks and then stops
                     39: the processor.  The machine does not reboot, even if the auto-reboot
                     40: switch is set on the console.
                     41: .PP
                     42: The
                     43: .B \-n
                     44: option prevents the sync before stopping.  The
                     45: .B \-q
                     46: option causes a quick halt, no graceful shutdown is attempted.  The
                     47: .B \-y
                     48: option is needed if you are trying to halt the system from a dialup.
                     49: .PP
                     50: .I Halt
                     51: normally logs the shutdown using
                     52: .IR syslog (8)
                     53: and places a shutdown record in the login accounting file
                     54: /var/log/wtmp.
                     55: These actions are inhibited if the
                     56: .B \-n
                     57: or
                     58: .B \-q
                     59: options are present.
                     60: .SH SEE ALSO
                     61: reboot(8), shutdown(8), syslogd(8)
                     62: .SH BUGS
                     63: It is very difficult to halt a VAX, as the machine wants to then
                     64: reboot itself.  A rather tight loop suffices.

This archive runs on limited infrastructure. Preserving old code on modern bandwidth. Automated agents are requested to crawl responsibly.