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Topic: How do I make DSL shut down at a certain time?, I know it prolly has to do with cron...

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arew264

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Posted: May 08 2005,16:44

I edited my crontab and installed cron, I'll be back in a min to see of it works...

arew264

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Posted: May 09 2005,01:51

hmmmm. I'm lost. at about 8:40 by my clock on May 8, I set up crontab as follows:

45 20 * * * sudo shutdown -n -h -t secs now

Wouldn't this have turned the computer off at 8:45? The shutdown command doesn't work alone, so I made it skip init (very fast) halt linux, and do it instantly. Why did this now work?

For your reference, I downloaded this debian package for the cron server:

cron_3.0pl1-87_i386.deb

which I got from here
Did I get the wrong package or program crontab wrong?

mikshaw

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Posted: May 09 2005,03:16

the shutdown command requires arguments, at the very least whether you want to halt or reboot the system. For halt you need to specify when, such as "sudo shutdown -h now".
DSL has an alias for this: "sudo halt"

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