[SOLVED] System Shutdown on Saturday

satish · 04-28-2012, 05:11 AM

I am using redhat 9 as a internet server, I had given in the crontab to shutdown my linux server at night 8:00 P.M but on saturday my office leaves on 4:00 P.M so I have to give in crontab to shutdown the server at 4:00 P.M when I am leaving at 3:00 P.M on saturday before leaving of my other employees

so I need a command which will detect the system date, when the date is detected as saturday the system will shutdown on 4:00 P.M on other days it will shutdown on 8:00 P.M

Regards

Satish

catkin · 04-28-2012, 06:48 AM

Why do you need a "command which will detect the system date" when cron can be configured to run a command on Saturdays at 4 PM?

satish · 04-29-2012, 11:20 PM

But every saturday I have to define in the crontab for the shutdown at 4:00 P.M is there anyway to define only one time in crontab on saturday on 4:00 P.M & other days shutdown at 8:00 P.M

If it is possible please give me the crontab command

Thanks & Regards

Satish

yancek · 04-29-2012, 11:52 PM

Use one crontab entry for the Monday-Friday at 8pm:

Code:

9 20 * * 1-5 command

and a second for Saturday:

Code:

0 16 * * 6 command

satish · 05-02-2012, 04:38 AM

Thanks yancek

It really helpful for me.

Regards

Satish