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The halt command is a convenience client program to instruct
dmd (when used as an init system) to stop all running services and turn
off the system. It has the following synopsis:
halt [option…]
It is equivalent to running deco power-off dmd. As usual, the
halt command understands the following option:
Send commands to the socket special file file. If this option is not specified, localstatedir/run/dmd/socket is taken.