Rebooting the JUNOS Software

After a software upgrade or to recover (occasionally) from an error condition, you will need to reboot the JUNOS software.

To reboot the JUNOS software:

1. Make sure you are in operational mode.
2. Type the following command:

   user@host> request system reboot

This command displays the final stages of the system shutdown and executes the reboot. Reboot requests are recorded to the system log files, which you can view with the show log messages command. For example:

shutdown: [pid 845]
Shutdown NOW! 
*** FINAL System shutdown message from root@host *** 
System going down IMMEDIATELY 
user@host> Dec 17 17:34:20 init: syslogd (PID 409) exited with status=0 Normal Exit
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped 
syncing disks... 10 6 
done
Uptime: 2m45s
ata0: resetting devices.. done
Rebooting...