simple timed shutdown script

lin00b · 07-12-2004, 08:16 AM

Hey everyone,

I've been playing around with the bash shell scripts, creating simple backup ones and stuff but I'm looking for a automated shutdown one. I listen to music on my computer during the night at my place and well I usually fall asleep before I can turn it off, and it makes alot of damn noise during the night and wakes me up so well, I want to make a script that tells the computer to just shutdown at a certain time (say round midnight), I'm sure it's possible. Any help would be great

druuna · 07-12-2004, 08:22 AM

Take a look at the following:

crontab / cron -> execute scheduled commands.
at -> queue jobs for later execution.

The biggest difference between the two: Cron is for executing commands regularly at the same time. And at is for executing commands once at a certain time.

Hope this helps.

superztnt · 07-12-2004, 04:24 PM

Couldn't you just do a shutdown command? Like if you were going to bed at 10 you could put in

shutdown -h +120m

to shut it down at midnight.

Jason Z.

scuzzman · 07-12-2004, 05:08 PM

shutdown -h 00:00

lin00b · 07-17-2004, 09:19 PM

Yeh, I didn't know you could use the shutdown command to control the whole thing

Thanks for everyones help.