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Scheduled shutdown

Asked by Rajinder Sandhu, Bangalore

How to configure scheduled system shutdown at 0800 hrs ?
I have Kcron and atd running
please help me to configure either of them so that it can be shutdown at predefined time daily

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Rajinder Sandhu, Bangalore (sandy744-breakthru) said : 		#1

using ubuntu 8.04

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

Hello

Open a terminal and enter a full root session:

sudo su -

Then type

crontab -e

and add a line like the following:

0 8 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now

Read the manual pages for crontab and for shutdown:

man crontab
man 5 crontab
man shutdown

Refer this link too

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-361844.html

Regards

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Rajinder Sandhu, Bangalore (sandy744-breakthru) said : 		#3

thanks
the link you gave helped me to solve the problem
through >at commands

Thanks again
Bye