Translations by Scott James Remnant (Canonical)

This command is intended to instruct the kernel to reboot or halt the system; when run without the -f option, or when in a system runlevel other than 0 or 6, it will actually execute /sbin/shutdown.

Calling shutdown

Unable to execute shutdown: %s

Rebooting

Halting

Powering off

[UTMP]

Output previous and current runlevel.

The system /var/run/utmp file is used unless the alternate file UTMP is given.

reboot after shutdown

halt or power off after shutdown

halt after shutdown (implies -h)

power off after shutdown (implies -h)

cancel a running shutdown

only send warnings, don't shutdown

TIME [MESSAGE]

Bring the system down.

TIME may have different formats, the most common is simply the word ‘now’ which will bring the system down immediately. Other valid formats are +m, where m is the number of minutes to wait until shutting down and hh:mm which specifies the time on the 24hr clock. Logged in users are warned by a message sent to their terminal, you may include an optional MESSAGE included with this. Messages can be sent without actually bringing the system down by using the -k option. If TIME is given, the command will remain in the foreground until the shutdown occurs. It can be cancelled by Control-C, or by another user using the -c option. The system is brought down into maintenance (single-user) mode by default, you can change this with either the -r or -h option which specify a reboot or system halt respectively. The -h option can be further modified with -H or -P to specify whether to halt the system, or to power it off afterwards. The default is left up to the shutdown scripts.

%s: time expected

%s: illegal hour value

%s: illegal minute value

%s: illegal time value

Shutdown is not running

Another shutdown is already running

Cannot find pid of running shutdown

Unable to change directory

Unable to write pid file

Shutdown cancelled

The system is going down for power off NOW!

The system is going down for halt NOW!

The system is going down for maintenance NOW!

The system is going down for reboot NOW!

Unable to fork child-process to warn users: %s

Broadcast message from %s@%s

(%s) at %d:%02d ...

set environment variable in the runlevel event

Change runlevel.

RUNLEVEL should be one of 0123456sS, where s and S are considered identical. RUNLEVEL may also be Q or q to instruct the init daemon to reload its configuration, this is rarely necessary since the daemon watches its configuration for changes. RUNLEVEL may be U or u to instruct the init daemon to re-execute itself, this is not recommended since Upstart does not currently preserve its state.

%s: missing runlevel

%s: illegal runlevel: %s

Detach and run in the background

Unable to become daemon