To shut down Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the root user may issue the /sbin/shutdown command. The shutdown
/sbin/shutdown -h now /sbin/shutdown -r now
After shutting everything down, the -h option halts the machine, and the -r
PAM console users can use the reboot and halt
If the computer does not power itself down, be careful not to turn off the computer until a message appears indicating that the system is halted.
Failure to wait for this message can mean that not all the hard drive partitions are unmounted, which can lead to file system corruption.
