Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Commands To Shutdown And Reboot On Linux" video.

  1. Hah ... I thought I could find one you missed: sending a signal, e.g. with the kill(1) command, to PID 1 (the “init” process). The systemd version of init(1) installs a bunch of signal handlers for SIGRTMIN+«n» that you can use to trigger reboot, poweroff and other useful functions.
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  2. 3:40 I don’t understand the point of “-H” (halt). If I want to shut down rather than restart, I use “-h” (poweroff).
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  3. 6:53 sudo echo -- didn’t they have a big hit with “Funky Town”?
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  4. 4:41 It seems to be traditional to use the “telinit” command to give these commands to the already-running init process (PID 1), rather than invoke init itself. But hey ...
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