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What does the &quot;init 6&quot; do? How does reboot differ from &quot;shutdown -r now&quot; on a regular linux machine?
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What does the "init 6" do? How does reboot differ from "shutdown -r now" on a regular linux machine?

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On a high level, they perform nearly the same. (Both call the shutdown command).<br />
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If one day you are missing reboot binary in a nix distro, you can try init 6.<br />
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There is no 'best' method in reboot verus init 6.
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On a high level, they perform nearly the same. (Both call the shutdown command).

If one day you are missing reboot binary in a nix distro, you can try init 6.

There is no 'best' method in reboot verus init 6.

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(Edit) &nbsp;Coincidentally I was just reading that same link!<br />
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Ok.. so in theory any of the three options would work? I don't have access to the Amazon console, so I want to be sure I understand what *should* happen before trying them ;-)
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(Edit)  Coincidentally I was just reading that same link!

Ok.. so in theory any of the three options would work? I don't have access to the Amazon console, so I want to be sure I understand what *should* happen before trying them ;-)

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Yes all should work. Personally I prefer init 6.
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Yes all should work. Personally I prefer init 6.

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Thanks, I'll give those a try.
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Easy question. I'm new to linux and am accessing an EC2 linux instance via putty, and need to reboot it. &nbsp;The <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-reboot.html" rel="ugc">Amazon User Guide</a> only mentions using the Amazon console. Does anyone know if it supports rebooting via putty?
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Easy question. I'm new to linux and am accessing an EC2 linux instance via putty, and need to reboot it.  The Amazon User Guide (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-reboot.html) only mentions using the Amazon console. Does anyone know if it supports rebooting via putty?

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