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.Dd February 8, 2024 .Dt REBOOT 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm reboot , .Nm halt , .Nm fastboot , .Nm fasthalt .Nd stopping and restarting the system .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm halt .Op Fl DflNnpq .Op Fl e Ar variable=value .Op Fl k Ar kernel .Op Fl o Ar options .Nm .Op Fl cDdflNnpqr .Op Fl e Ar variable=value .Op Fl k Ar kernel .Op Fl o Ar options .Nm fasthalt .Op Fl DflNnpq .Op Fl e Ar variable=value .Op Fl k Ar kernel .Op Fl o Ar options .Nm fastboot .Op Fl dDflNnpq .Op Fl e Ar variable=value .Op Fl k Ar kernel .Op Fl o Ar options .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm halt and .Nm utilities flush the file system cache to disk, send all running processes a .Dv SIGTERM (and subsequently a .Dv SIGKILL ) and, respectively, halt or restart the system. The action is logged, including entering a shutdown record into the user accounting database.
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width indent t Fl c The system will turn off the power and then turn it back on if it can. If the power down action fails, the system will halt or reboot normally, depending on whether .Nm halt or .Nm was called. At the present time, only the .Xr ipmi 4 driver implements the power cycle functionality and only on hardware with a BMC that supports power cycling. Unlike power off, the amount of hardware that supports power cycling is small. t Fl D Delete existing .Nm nextboot configuration and exit. t Fl d The system is requested to create a crash dump. This option is supported only when rebooting, and it has no effect unless a dump device has previously been specified with .Xr dumpon 8 . t Fl e Ar variable=value Sets .Va variable to .Va value in the loader's and kernel's environment. If .Va value is not already enclosed in double quotes, they will be added before writing to the .Nm nextboot configuration. Care should be taken if .Va value contains any characters that are special to the shell or loader's configuration parsing code. t Fl k Ar kname Boot the specified kernel .Ar kname on the next system boot. This is a one-shot option, the .Em default kernel will be booted on successive boots. No .Nm reboot or .Nm halt will be performed if .Em /boot/kname/kernel does not exist unless the .Fl f flag is specified. t Fl l The halt or reboot is .Em not logged to the system log. This option is intended for applications such as .Xr shutdown 8 , that call .Nm or .Nm halt and log this themselves. t Fl N The file system cache is not flushed during the initial process clean-up, however the kernel level .Xr reboot 2 is still processed with a sync. This option can be useful for performing a .Dq best-effort reboot when devices might be unavailable. This can happen when devices have been disconnected, such as with .Xr iscsi 4 . t Fl n The file system cache is not flushed. This option should probably not be used. t Fl o Ar options This option allows the passing of kernel flags for the next boot. t Fl p The system will turn off the power if it can. If the power down action fails, the system will halt or reboot normally, depending on whether .Nm halt or .Nm was called. t Fl q The system is halted or restarted quickly and ungracefully, and only the flushing of the file system cache is performed (if the .Fl n option is not specified). This option should probably not be used. t Fl r The system kills all processes, unmounts all filesystems, mounts the new root filesystem, and begins the usual startup sequence. After changing vfs.root.mountfrom with .Xr kenv 1 , .Nm Fl r can be used to change the root filesystem while preserving kernel state. This requires the .Xr tmpfs 4 kernel module to be loaded because .Xr init 8 needs a place to store itself after the old root is unmounted, but before the new root is in place. .El
p The .Nm fasthalt and .Nm fastboot utilities are nothing more than aliases for the .Nm halt and .Nm utilities.
p Normally, the .Xr shutdown 8 utility is used when the system needs to be halted or restarted, giving users advance warning of their impending doom and cleanly terminating specific programs. .Sh EXAMPLES Replace current root filesystem with UFS mounted from
a /dev/ada0s1a : d -literal -offset indent kenv vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ada0s1a reboot -r .Ed
p This mechanism can also be used with NFS, with a caveat that it only works with NFSv4, and requires a numeric IPv4 address: d -literal -offset indent kenv vfs.root.mountfrom=nfs:192.168.1.1:/share/name reboot -r .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kenv 1 , .Xr getutxent 3 , .Xr ipmi 4 , .Xr boot 8 , .Xr dumpon 8 , .Xr nextboot 8 , .Xr savecore 8 , .Xr shutdown 8 , .Xr sync 8 .Sh HISTORY A .Nm utility appeared in x 4.0 .