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7<title>Rebooting and Shutting Down</title>
8
9<para>The system can be shut down (and automatically powered off) by
10doing:
11
12<screen>
13# shutdown
14</screen>
15
16This is equivalent to running <command>systemctl
17poweroff</command>.</para>
18
19<para>To reboot the system, run
20
21<screen>
22# reboot
23</screen>
24
25which is equivalent to <command>systemctl reboot</command>.
26Alternatively, you can quickly reboot the system using
27<literal>kexec</literal>, which bypasses the BIOS by directly loading
28the new kernel into memory:
29
30<screen>
31# systemctl kexec
32</screen>
33
34</para>
35
36<para>The machine can be suspended to RAM (if supported) using
37<command>systemctl suspend</command>, and suspended to disk using
38<command>systemctl hibernate</command>.</para>
39
40<para>These commands can be run by any user who is logged in locally,
41i.e. on a virtual console or in X11; otherwise, the user is asked for
42authentication.</para>
43
44</chapter>