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Force reboot in Linux

An even better and cleaner method than the reset button is to use Ctrl+Alt+Del. When even that doesn’t work and the system has frozen, there’s always hope. Hold down Alt+SysRq and press the following keys in order: R,E,I,S,U,B. Partitions will be unmounted cleanly, processes will be closed forcefully and the system should reboot soon afterwards.

Automatic shutdown in Linux

You can tell your Linux box to shut down at a certain time of day using and customizing one of the commands below: shutdown 8:00 — Shutdown at 8:00 shutdown +13 — Shutdown after 13 minutes shutdown -r now — Shutdown and restart shutdown -k +2 — Display the “The system is going DOWN to… Read More »