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<docinfo><date>@LXC_GENERATE_DATE@</date></docinfo>

<refmeta>

<refentrytitle>lxc-stop</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

</refmeta>

<refnamediv>

<refname>lxc-stop</refname>

<refpurpose>

stop the application running inside a container

</refpurpose>

</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>

<cmdsynopsis>

<command>lxc-stop</command>

<arg choice="req">-n <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>

<arg choice="opt">-W</arg>

<arg choice="opt">-r</arg>

<arg choice="opt">-t <replaceable>timeout</replaceable></arg>

<arg choice="opt">-k</arg>

<arg choice="opt">--nokill</arg>

<arg choice="opt">--nolock</arg>

</cmdsynopsis>

</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>

<title>Description</title>

<para>

<command>lxc-stop</command> reboots, cleanly shuts down, or kills

all the processes inside the container. By default, it will

request a clean shutdown of the container (by sending SIGPWR to

the container), wait 60 seconds for the container to exit, and

returns. If the container fails to cleanly exit, then after 60

seconds the container will be sent the

<command>lxc.stopsignal</command> to force it to shut down. If

<command>lxc.stopsignal</command> is not specified, the signal sent is

SIGKILL.

</para>

<para>

The <optional>-W</optional>, <optional>-r</optional>,

<optional>-k</optional> and <optional>--nokill</optional>

options specify the action to perform.

<optional>-W</optional> indicates that after performing the specified

action, <command>lxc-stop</command> should immediately exit, while

<optional>-t TIMEOUT</optional> specifies the maximum amount of time

to wait for the container to complete the shutdown or reboot.

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>

<title>Options</title>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>

<term>

<option>-r,--reboot </option>

</term>

<listitem>

<para>

Request a reboot of the container.

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>

<option>-k,--kill </option>

</term>

<listitem>

<para>

Rather than requesting a clean shutdown of the container, explicitly

kill all tasks in the container. This is the legacy

<command>lxc-stop</command> behavior.

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>

<option>--nokill</option>

</term>

<listitem>

<para>

Only request a clean shutdown, do not kill the container tasks if the

clean shutdown fails.

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>

<option>--nolock </option>

</term>

<listitem>

<para>

This option avoids the use of any of the API lxc locking, and should

only be used if <command>lxc-stop</command> is hanging due to a bad

system state.

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>

<option>-W,--nowait </option>

</term>

<listitem>

<para>

Simply perform the requestion action (reboot, shutdown, or hard

kill) and exit.

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term>

<option>-t,--timeout <replaceable>TIMEOUT</replaceable></option>

</term>

<listitem>

<para>

Wait TIMEOUT seconds before hard-stopping the container.

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>

<title>Diagnostic</title>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>

<term>The container was not found</term>

<listitem>

<para>

The specified container was not created before with

the <command>lxc-create</command> command.

</para>

</listitem>

</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</refsect1>

&seealso;

<refsect1>

<title>Author</title>

<para>Daniel Lezcano <email>daniel.lezcano@free.fr</email></para>

</refsect1>

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