How to safely reboot a Linux server? Commands Add comments Dec 182009 Safely reboot a Linux server? Answer: Use the following command: shutdown -r now Related posts: How to shutdown a frozen Linux System? Shutdown Linux X minutes later Disable auto /tmp folder clean up when reboot in Debian/Ubuntu How to restart a frozen Linux System? Display the current hard limit of my Linux server Leave a Reply Cancel reply Name (required) E-mail (required) URI Your Comment You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>