On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Kumar Appaiah <a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:57:31AM +0800, waterloo wrote: > > How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? > > I use Debian 6 amd64. > > Searching online led me to this: > > > http://synapse.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/run-a-script-on-startup-shutdown-in-linux/ > > HTH. > > Kumar > Off the top of my head (and requires debugging) #!/usr/bin/env (ba)sh # (your choice of bash or sh) execute-your-cmd-here shutdown -r now # swap -r for -h if you wish to halt instead of reboot inversely you can 'man (or info) bash' and learn how to use case so you can pass switches to your script ... i.e. /root/bin/your-shutdown-script -r or /root/bin/your-shutdown-script -h If given enough inclination, I might be able to write something in python (albeit it crude and rudimentary but it should get the job done) -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org
