NAME
halt - abruptly stop the system
SYNOPSIS
halt [-f]
DESCRIPTION
Halt stops the system almost immediately. The users are not
informed about the things to come. Halt is logged in
/usr/adm/wtmp and in /usr/adm/log, if these files exist.
Halt should only be run by the super-user, any other caller
will be refused.
Halt is a rather rude program. Shutdown(8) is preferred for
it performs a more gentle halt routine.
Halt -f is even worse, it omits the terminate signals that
are normally sent first to all processes to give them a
chance to die peacefully.
SEE ALSO
reboot(2), shutdown(8), reboot(8), boot(8).
AUTHOR
Edvard Tuinder (v892231@si.hhs.NL)