Rebooting & Halting

Traditionally, rebooting and halting a UNIX system is done by switching to the corresponding runlevel (0 or 6). Over time this has changed and Finit comes with its own tooling providing: shutdown, reboot, poweroff, and suspend. These commands are also available from the initctl tool.

For compatibility reasons Finit listens to the same set of signals as BusyBox init. This is not 100% compatible with SysV init, but clearly the more common combination for Finit. For more details, see the Signal section.