Delaying Systemd Reboot For A While

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Hi,

I’m in need of rebooting a server 1 minute after I give the command. I’m used to

shutdown -r +1

which works as advertised. Now that shutdown is part of systemd
and it is actually a link to it in CentOS 7, I’ve seen in the documentation

that I can also use

systemctl reboot

But I can’t find a way to provide a time specification in this latter form. What’s the correct incantation?

TIA, Carlos.

5 thoughts on - Delaying Systemd Reboot For A While

  • Have you tried this? It’s a symlink, but systemctl knows to act differently when called as shutdown, and the traditional use still works. No need to hack around anything — just use ‘shutdown -r’ as always. In Fedora at least, note that +1 is actually the _default_ — I think that’s true in EL7 as well but I don’t have a system handy to check. See `man shutdown` for more.

    And `man systemd.time` for the time formats.


    Matthew Miller

    Fedora Project Leader

  • Oh, yes! Both reboot and shutdown work as usual. I just wanted to know if there was a one-to-one mapping to the systemctl version.

    Thanks a lot, Carlos.