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auto-shutdown linux at a certain time
Name: structure Date: November 13, 2000 at 05:16:15 Pacific
Comment:
Greetz!
I like to shutdown my RH5.2 every day @ 23:00hr. How should i acclompish this? Do I use cron for that? If so, can someone give me some hints on that?
Also, i like to msg my ftp users that the server will shut down. I know how to do that, but how do i put that into my cron?
Name: ML Date: November 13, 2000 at 12:07:49 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, you should use cron.
Read "man crontab" for info on how it works.
You can run any executable in a cron job, so simply calling a shell script that sends the message, waits an adequate delay, and then a "shutdown -h now" call in a script should do it...
If you don't know how to make the shell script... Well, that's another topic, really.
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Response Number 2
Name: structure Date: November 14, 2000 at 10:19:45 Pacific
Reply:
Writing a script isn;t that hard, so that won't be a problem. crontab: I will do that, thank you for your help.
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