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If you are on a remote machine, you may also want to add the -f option to force the reboot. Otherwise your session may close and a stubborn app can hang the system. I use this whenever I want to force an immediate reboot: shutdown -t 0 -r -f For a more friendly "give them some time" option, you can use this: shutdown -t 30 -r As you can see in the comments, the -f is implied by the timeout. Brutus 2006 is a utility that provides a GUI for these options.