Re: Programming the shutdown time

[Jeff Vian <jvian10 charter net>]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:19 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 8/31/05, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo gmail com> wrote:
>         On 8/31/05, Paul Smith <phhs80 gmail com> wrote:
>                 Dear All
>                 
>                 I am looking for the best way of programming the
>                 (automatic) shutdown
>                 time of  my computer. Any ideas?
>                 
>                 Thanks in advance,
>                 
>                 Paul
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>         
>         man cron 
>         
>         if you want it to happen at regular intervals, or
>         
>         man at
>         
>         if you want it to happen once, at a specific time.
> 
> and I should have added, I don't think it's a great idea to do it in
> cron, especially if you're also running anacron. I don't really have
> any experience with this, though.

anacron would have no affect on getting a clean shutdown. It is called
by cron in the daily, weekly, and monthly processing but has nothing to
do with shutting down.  

To automate a shutdown cron is the best place if you intend to have it
shutdown at the same time every (day, week, etc).  If you want it to be
a little more flexible then a script with some intelligence can be
called by cron to control it. 


You can even set up the power control to shutdown/hibernate/suspend for
you.

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