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Ok so its ny understanding that if I want to shutdown now I type "shutdown -h now" but what about if I want to shutdown later ? I tried "shutdown -h later" sat there for ten hours and it never shut down the next day I tried "shutdown -h in about ten minutes" still nothing, I'm getting frustrated that my dum dum linux box won't do what I tell it to....I think I'm gunna go back to mac.... LOLZ
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Originally Posted by j0eh4x
Ok so its ny understanding that if I want to shutdown now I type "shutdown -h now" but what about if I want to shutdown later ? I tried "shutdown -h later" sat there for ten hours and it never shut down the next day I tried "shutdown -h in about ten minutes" still nothing, I'm getting frustrated that my dum dum linux box won't do what I tell it to....I think I'm gunna go back to mac.... LOLZ
First of all, please let us know what is your environment have exactly. Is it Ubuntu, Centos, or something ? . Try to use "shutdown -P -h" command to make the power off.
Well... only the word "now" is an accepted alias, otherwise the time specification can be HH:MM or +M. The former is the absolute time in 24h format, the latter is the number of minutes to wait. Said that you can decide at which hour the system must go down:
Code:
shutdown -h 20:30
or how many minutes to wait before shutdown:
Code:
shutdown -h +600
where +600 means ten hours. Please, see man shutdown for details.
Ok so its ny understanding that if I want to shutdown now I type "shutdown -h now" but what about if I want to shutdown later ? I tried "shutdown -h later" sat there for ten hours and it never shut down the next day I tried "shutdown -h in about ten minutes" still nothing, I'm getting frustrated that my dum dum linux box won't do what I tell it to....I think I'm gunna go back to mac.... LOLZ
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the next day I tried "shutdown -h in about ten minutes" still nothing, I'm getting frustrated that my dum dum linux box won't do what I tell it to....I think I'm gunna go back to mac.... LOLZ
