How to Reboot Linux Using the Command Line

Posted by linuxize on May 31, 2019 3:30 PM EDT
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Sometimes when debugging an issue or updating the kernel you may need to reboot your Linux system. If you have a headless server you need to know how to restart the system from the command line.

On the modern Linux distributions, the systemctl utility replaces the most of power management commands used in the older Linux distributions with sysvinit. Old reboot and shutdown commands are aliases to systemctl and are available in the system for compatibility reasons.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the systemctl and shutdown commands to reboot your Linux machine. The commands must be run as root or user with sudo privileges.

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