December 23, 201510 yr To shut down Red Hat or CentOS Linux, the root user may issue the /sbin/shutdown command. The shutdown man page has a complete list of options, but the two most common uses are: /sbin/shutdown -h now /sbin/shutdown -r now After shutting everything down, the -h option halts the machine, and the -r option reboots.
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