Re: [gentoo-user] Differences: halt, shutdown, init 0?

[Richard Fish]

Minn M Soe wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Is it harmless if we shut down with the command init 0? Are there big
>differences between halt, shutdown -r now and init 0?
>
>

See the man pages for 'halt' and 'shutdown'.

Unless told otherwise, shutdown operates by signalling init, so 
"shutdown", "halt", "init 0", and "telinit 0" are all equivalent.  Halt 
calls shutdown if the system is not already at runlevel 0 or 6, so that 
is also normally equivalent.

-Richard

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