Command help?
Aldo Foot
lunixer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 20:18:17 UTC 2008
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Bradley <pursley001 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I am starting to do some more advanced automated maintenance on my
> system but can't find a nifty way to do something and was wondering if
> anyone out there can help me with this. I am configuring my system to
> do an automated backup of all my data (2 to 4 hours per week) but need
> it to do certain things to protect the process.
>
> For an unattended process, I need to know how to:
>
> 1. Force all users currently logged on to be logged off (preferably
> with at least a 5 minute notice).
> 2. Prevent anyone from logging on.
> 3. Prevent the system from being shut down or rebooted.
> 4. Shut down the X server (speeds up processing time considerably).
> 5. After finished to restart X server and allow shutdown and logins.
>
> If anyone knows any commands to do at least some of these, I would
> appreciate knowing how. The part about shutting down the X server is
> optional but would be nice but not allowing anyone to be logged in and
> preventing system shut down is necessary.
>
> Bradley
My 0.02 cents.
start by doing man on login, nologin, shutdown, killall etc...
/etc/nologin -- prevents user logins
shutdown -k Don't really shutdown; only send the warning messages
to everybody.
killall -u, --user
Kill only processes the specified user owns.
Command names are
optional.
~af
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