Please post a comment on this page to let me know about any other open-source network simulation tools I did not include in this list. This is a list of open-source network simulators and network emulators that run on Linux or BSD. Older news is archived on the Network Simulator News page. As you may have guessed, the shutdown command can be used for other tasks like actually shutting the Mac down, putting the Mac to sleep instantly like pmset, and more.See John Howard’s GitHub repository for a set of Containerlab configurations that use FRR and SR Linux to create a network demonstrating EVPN transport of VLANs across WireGuard tunnels. The shutdown command has been around since the earliest days of Mac OS X and still exists in Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite, Sierra, Mojave, onward. Using this shutdown command, it would also be easy to modify a past trick to remotely sleeping a Mac to be able to remotely reboot or shutdown a Mac instead. Also, the will be that of whom initiated the reboot. The reporting will reference shutdown whether you are rebooting, shutting down, or sleeping, which is why it can be useful to append a message to the command, which is reported back as the second to last line. *** FINAL System shutdown message from *** This looks like the following to anyone logged into the Mac: Sudo shutdown -r now 'Rebooting Now for ' You can add a message to the reboot notice for those logged in through SSH by adding a quote at the end like so: Osascript -e 'tell app 'System Events' to restart' How to Reboot from the Command Line with a Message

The Mac will be immediately restarted regardless of what’s going on, so be sure not to use this if important documents are open and you have something like auto-save turned off.Īnother option is to use the following different command to reboot a Mac from the command line: Next you’ll need to enter the administrator password when requested, that’s because the command is prefixed with sudo, which gives the shutdown command superuser privileges that are necessary to issue the reboot command. To start a reboot immediately from the Mac OS X Terminal, type the following command string at a prompt (either locally or remotely): How to Restart a Mac from the Mac OS X Command Line

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