Re: Automated Shutdown Script

[Erik Hemdal]

> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:42:17 -0700 (MST)
> From: Mike 
> Subject: Re: Automated Shutdown Script
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
> Cc: Michael Marsh 
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> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Michael Marsh wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to make fedora shut down automatically at a 
> > certain time of day with a bash script?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Michael Marsh
> > [e-mail]
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> Here's one way.  Say you want to shutdown at 9:00 PM every 
> day.  Do the following as root:
>
> # crontab -e
>    0 21 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now

This is a good way to do it.  I'd suggest only a slight difference.
Put the entry at the end of /etc/crontab and add 'root' in the user field,
so:

0 21 * * * root sbin/shutdown -h -t 600

Note that -t gives the number of seconds before shutdown, to give users 10
minutes before the system is yanked out from under them.  I prefer using
/etc/crontab because it keeps all my root cronjobs in one place, so I do not
lose track of them.

Just my 40% of a nickel.  Hope it helps.  Erik