## poweroff

#### OS/161 Reference Manual

### Name

poweroff - halt system and power it off

### Synopsis

/sbin/poweroff

### Description

poweroff shuts down the system and then turns the system power off. On platforms where soft power-off is not supported, poweroff functions the same way as halt.

### Requirements

poweroff uses the reboot system call.

poweroff will function properly even before you do any work on OS/161.

### See Also

/bin/sync
halt, reboot