Programming the shutdown time
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Aug 31 23:26:53 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:19 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 8/31/05, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/31/05, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I am looking for the best way of programming the
> (automatic) shutdown
> time of my computer. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
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>
> man cron
>
> if you want it to happen at regular intervals, or
>
> man at
>
> if you want it to happen once, at a specific time.
>
> and I should have added, I don't think it's a great idea to do it in
> cron, especially if you're also running anacron. I don't really have
> any experience with this, though.
anacron would have no affect on getting a clean shutdown. It is called
by cron in the daily, weekly, and monthly processing but has nothing to
do with shutting down.
To automate a shutdown cron is the best place if you intend to have it
shutdown at the same time every (day, week, etc). If you want it to be
a little more flexible then a script with some intelligence can be
called by cron to control it.
You can even set up the power control to shutdown/hibernate/suspend for
you.
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