ShutDownComputer

Shut down the computer

This page was last updated on July 18, 2009.

• From the Run box or a terminal window:

sudo shutdown -h now

• From anywhere:

Ctrl Alt Del

• From a remote computer:

1. Telnet to the hung computer over the network if the hung computer is running a telnet server.
2. Type any of these three commands to shut down and reboot the computer:

   sudo halt

   Or:

   sudo reboot

   Or:

   sudo init 6

Obligatory Happy Ending

And they all lived happily ever after. The end.