The system is going DOWN for system halt in 5 minutes!
A custom message can also be provided $ sudo shutdown -h +5 "Save your work."īroadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Nov 6 00:43:48 2012):.
In 24 hour format $ sudo shutdown -h 00:45īroadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Nov 6 00:30:54 2012): The system is going DOWN for system halt in 15 minutes!.
The system is going DOWN for system halt in 3 minutes!
To shutdown the machine after given number of minutes or set a delay, for example $ sudo shutdown -h +3īroadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Nov 6 00:23:48 2012):.
The system can be shut down immediately by providing "now" in place of time.