How To Reboot And Shutdown Linux Servers
This could be due to regular maintenance activity like OS patching or due to some hardware failure that requires a system to be powered down for maintenance. A Linux system offers several different ways to reboot or shut down the server. A normal system should respond to any command while a degraded server may need to be rebooted forcefully. Do note that most of these commands will require a certain level of privilege either as superuser or with sudo to be executed successfully since rebooting a system is an administrative task and for a multi-user system or server running critical processes, reboot or shutdown is a disruptive activity....