halt
¶The halt
command is a convenience client program to instruct
the Shepherd (when used as an init system) to stop all running services and turn
off the system. It has the following synopsis:
halt [option...]
It is equivalent to running herd power-off shepherd
. As
usual, the halt
command understands the following option:
Send commands to the socket special file file. If this option is not specified, localstatedir/run/shepherd/socket is taken.