.TH HALT 8

.SH NAME

halt \- abruptly stop the system

.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBhalt\fP [\fB\-f\fP]

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B Halt

stops the system almost immediately. The users are not informed about

the things to come.

.B Halt

is logged in

.B /usr/adm/wtmp

and in

.BR /usr/adm/log ,

if these files exist.

.B Halt

should only be run by the super-user, any other caller will be refused.

.PP

.B Halt

is a rather rude program.

.BR Shutdown (8)

is preferred for it performs a more gentle halt routine.

.PP

.B Halt \-f

is even worse, it omits the terminate signals that are normally

sent first to all processes to give them a chance to die peacefully.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR reboot (2),

.BR shutdown (8),

.BR reboot (8),

.BR boot (8).

.SH AUTHOR

Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)