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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What is the difference between that and simply reboot? Does systemctl reboot have any benefits?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wondering the same

Edit: after a quick google session it seems like usually the reboot command is linked to systemctl so it should be pretty much the same thing as far as I understand.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

reboot is linked (aliased) to your init program. In the case you are using systemd then it's equivalent to systemctl reboot.

reboot is generic and calls whatever init program you use.

There are more than one init. Like for example GNU Shepherd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

SysV, Upstart

[–] msage 9 points 1 week ago

Gentoo uses OpenRC

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Let's get completely unnecessary:

# systemctl isolate runlevel6.target
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You, like me, must be old.

I also frequently pass -l to the ssh command.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not old, I just like how short the command is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Fair enough, I can respect that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't get that.

Checked the man and it's not deprecated. So what does it have to do with "old"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nowadays most Linux users seem to use ssh user@host. When I was getting started, that didn't exist (or at least I was unaware of it) so I still frequently use the -l flag instead.

Nothing wrong with it, just that at least I mostly encounter its use by experienced users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OIC. Good to know in case I ever have to work on some old CentOS 5 box lying around ever again.
It also looks kinda proper, using that instead of the @, so when making shell scripts, I might want to prefer this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

sudo shutdown -r now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I just flick the switch on the surge protector.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Alt+SysRq-O

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
sudo ps -ef | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -r kill -9
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

sudo reboot 0

...is my go-to.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

reboot -f

Because real men login as root and don't care about such silly things like an init system or file system syncing!

To quote the man page:

-f Does not invoke shutdown(8) and instead performs the actual action you would expect from the name.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Can you give Linus a Raiden hat?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Dummy me I type "systemctl restart" instead 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

PuTTY: "unexpectedly" disconnected.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Sudo shutdown now -r

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've repurposed a broken T2 macbook with Ubuntu Server, but any time I issue a reboot command, it just shuts down, and I need to manually walk to my garage and boot it back up.

Does anyone know why I'm so stoopid?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I was having issues with my pc hanging on reboot, so i changed the bios to auto boot when power is applied, and use a smart switch to manually power cycle when it hangs.

Not sure if the mac bios supports that, but its worth a look

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

run0 reboot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Alt-SysReq-B

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I will always use the GUI for this when given the option. Change my mind (you can't).

[–] Gingernate 2 points 1 week ago

I won't try but I'll always use the command line.

It's faster for me! Ctrl+alt+T brings up terminal, sudo reboot. Enter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I often remote into my machine, so it's a lot easier to type the command.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago
A stop job is running for ... (45min / no limit)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Live Mas as the root account