How to Shutdown or Reboot your CentOS machine?
You can shutdown your CentOS machine by executing this command
shutdown -h now
You can tell CentOS to reboot after shutdown using the following command
shutdown -r now
If you want to shutdown or reboot the system after a while you can replace "now" with the number of minutes to wait such as the following command that will reboot the machine after 2 minutes
shutdown -r 2
I hope you found this tutorial useful and stay tuned for more to come