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Date:      Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:51:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        <fred@timogen.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Re: Can I use cron to shutdown a machine
Message-ID:  <20020722154815.O12579-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <031b01c231bb$dea90760$7d05a8c0@fred>

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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 fred@timogen.com 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,

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Peter Leftwich
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