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HALT(8)								       HALT(8)

NAME
       halt - abruptly stop the system

SYNOPSIS
       halt [-f]

DESCRIPTION
       Halt  stops  the system almost immediately.  The users are not informed
       about the things to come.  Halt	is  logged  in	/usr/adm/wtmp  and  in
       /usr/adm/log,  if  these	 files	exist.	Halt should only be run by the
       super-user, any other caller will be refused.

       Halt is a rather rude program.  Shutdown(8) is preferred	 for  it  per‐
       forms a more gentle halt routine.

       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.

SEE ALSO
       reboot(2), shutdown(8), reboot(8), boot(8).

AUTHOR
       Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)

								       HALT(8)

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