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Auto shutdown
Name: faruk Date: February 16, 2002 at 01:20:11 Pacific
Comment:
How can automatic shutdown the linux computer? Say, Linux server automatic shutdown in 8AM. Is it possible? Tell me please!
Name: ronen Date: February 16, 2002 at 02:45:54 Pacific
Reply:
y do u need to do that?
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Response Number 2
Name: Artur Correia Date: February 16, 2002 at 10:13:24 Pacific
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Ronan made a preety good point...i suppose you could use cron to do it but what's the point??
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Response Number 3
Name: faruk Date: February 17, 2002 at 02:20:42 Pacific
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Sorry, I told at 8AM. It will be at 8PM I need that I out from office at 5PM some user use the inter up to 8am. So, server must be open on that time. I want to shutdown at 8am.
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Response Number 4
Name: ronen Date: February 17, 2002 at 15:26:06 Pacific
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better for u to leave it open all night
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Response Number 5
Name: Greg Date: February 18, 2002 at 22:47:51 Pacific
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You could do shutdown -h (time in minutes) for it to shutdown in a specific number of minutes. Then you could write a script that would have it shut down x hours after you leave. Good Luck.
Hi guys goto linuxconf->configure superuser schedule task here you can define a command for auto shutdown or whatever you need for automation. for the point of shutdown you can define poweroff in command * in month * in days of month * in day of week 20 in hours 00 in minutes This combination is for automatic shutting down server everyday at 8:Pm.
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