Upon controlled shutdown, via shutdown(8),
init(8) will attempt to run the script
/etc/rc.shutdown
, and then proceed to send
all processes the TERM
signal, and subsequently
the KILL
signal to any that do not terminate
timely.
To power down a FreeBSD machine on architectures and systems
that support power management, simply use the command
shutdown -p now
to turn the power off
immediately. To just reboot a FreeBSD system, just use
shutdown -r now
. You need to be
root
or a member of
operator
group to run shutdown(8).
The halt(8) and reboot(8) commands can also be used,
please refer to their manual pages and to shutdown(8)'s one
for more information.
Power management requires acpi(4) support in the kernel or loaded as module for.
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