On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Vincent Schumaker <vschum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't see why you can't just run: > > shutdown -r 30 > > Is it so urgent that the system be rebooted 'now?' I agree, why not just use `$ shutdown -r [+1]`? That'll make the command exit cleanly and give you a minute to end the SSH session. And at least on my Arch machine, /usr/bin/shutdown is a symlink to /usr/bin/systemctl so I suppose that it actually uses systemd under the hood.