# Node-RED Self Restart
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432
**Category:** FAQs
**Created:** [27 May 2018 10:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432 "2018-05-27T10:46:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [17 December 2020 21:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/21 "2020-12-17T21:19:50Z")
Welcome to the forum @MattL0.
Do you mean a button on the node-red dashboard? If so you can easily add a button and feed it to your exec node.
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> Like near the node red log on the left
I am not sure what you mean by that. What log?
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### Author:  [@MattL0](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/MattL0)
#### Post date: [23 December 2020 07:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/22 "2020-12-23T07:06:50Z")
Thank you. Sorry i meant logo \*\*
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### Author:  [@MattL0](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/MattL0)
#### Post date: [23 December 2020 07:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/23 "2020-12-23T07:07:21Z")
No I meant directly on the admin ui
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [23 December 2020 14:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/24 "2020-12-23T14:49:09Z")
You need to read through the latest generation of the settings.js file, you will find something in there that lets you set a URL.
In fact, as I've just broken off for the Christmas Break, I may share my latest settings.js file because I've done an improved layout with better comments. So keep an eye out for another thread in the forum.
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### Author:  [@votecoffee](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/votecoffee)
#### Post date: [13 January 2021 15:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/25 "2021-01-13T15:26:26Z")
If you need to supply a password, you can use the sudo -S option:
`echo user | sudo -S sudo reboot now`
Alternatively, you can configure an askpass helper by setting the SUDO\_ASKPASS environment variable or modify /etc/sudo.conf.
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### Author:  [@PaulKana](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/PaulKana)
#### Post date: [25 February 2021 19:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/26 "2021-02-25T19:30:14Z")
I wonder if it is possible to chain _node-red stop_ with _sudo halt_ on Raspberry Os?
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [25 February 2021 19:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/27 "2021-02-25T19:59:49Z")
Why would you want to do that? If you are running Node-RED under systemd, shutting down the Pi will cleanly shut down Node-RED for you. Actually, I think node-red will cleanly shut down even if running manually since I seem to remember that is a feature of node.js. Test that theory though before relying on it 😁
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### Author:  [@PaulKana](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/PaulKana)
#### Post date: [25 February 2021 22:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/28 "2021-02-25T22:23:51Z")
Hey, thanks for the information! The reasoning was to have the persistent storage written to disk, I wasn’t sure that shutting down the system directly would accomplish that.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [25 February 2021 23:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/29 "2021-02-25T23:47:42Z")
Yes, I believe so, it should flush on close. You could always test it by setting the timeout to something long and then update a variable and close node-red straight away if you wanted to.
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### Author:  [@PaulKana](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/PaulKana)
#### Post date: [26 February 2021 13:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/30 "2021-02-26T13:28:20Z")
Hey, it seems that you are right, shutting down the rpi through the Shutdown RPi node writes the global values to filesystem before shutting down the RPi.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [26 February 2021 14:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-self-restart/432/31 "2021-02-26T14:08:54Z")
Phew, I thought I'd seen that but always good to have it verified 😁
Thanks.
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