redhat 6 ideal way to reboot

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I rebooted my redhat 6 servere using "reboot" command but all the services did not come up cleanly. After I did "shutdown -h now" and physically started from console they came up fine. Can I do "shutdown -r now" in future ? Is that the same as "reboot" in redhat 6

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This brings back Solaris nightmares (where there was a very definite difference between reboot and init 6/shutdown -i 6)

Rishi,

The init stage is fairly late in the boot process, so seems strange that the method of shutdown would impact the start of services.

Is the service that failed to start on reboot included in Red Hat? or is it a third party product?

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This is from man page for 'reboot'
When called with --force or when in runlevel 0 or 6, this tool invokes the reboot(2) system call itself and directly reboots the system. Otherwise this simply invokes the shutdown(8) tool with the appropriate arguments.

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