On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi , Can I use cron to shutdown a mahine? I had add the task to shutdown a machin in >crontab, but It is not work. Can u tell me why? > Regards, > Fred Zhang
Sure you can! In your crontab file, just use the command "shutdown -p now" or you can specify a [time] instead of the "now." From the manpage for "shutdown:" time Time is the time at which shutdown will bring the system down and may be the word now (indicating an immediate shutdown) or specify a future time in one of two formats: +number, or yymmddhhmm, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
