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Old 07-02-2004, 07:13 PM   #1
a_calder
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Poweroff using the AT command?


I have a server running in a room that is scheduled to have maintenance done tomorrow. All the power will be shut off to that room, and I can't get to it before then.

I want to leave the server running as long as I can, and shut it down just before they switch off the power.

So far, my best guess is to do a poweroff command using AT.

But I don't know how.

Does someone know how to write this?

Thanks,
a_calder
 
Old 07-02-2004, 07:58 PM   #2
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Sure -- suppose that you want to turn the server off at 0800 hours tomorrow. Type

at 08:00

You'll see a [rompt that looks like 'at> ', type shutdown -h now at it, press enter, and then hit CTRL+D.

Probably an easier way to do it is to use the shutdown command's own feature. Shutdown will take a time argument specifying when the shutdown is to occur, or you could specify it in minutes ahead of the present, e.g. shutdown -h +120 will shut the machine down in two hours time. See man shutdown for more details.
 
  


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