Power saving shutdown for Server

[Kai Wüstermann]

Moin Ian!

Am Freitag, den 03.08.2007, 21:18 +0200 schrieb Ian Moore:

> I have tried running a Cron job to shutdown the server at 11pm each night. However for some reason I can't get it to work.
> The path is correct and the job is executed as root but it doesn't seem to work.
> I've even tried creating a job using Webmin. This works when you run the script from the menu screen. But when left to run as scheduled it doesn't work.
> 

Did you have the the path in front of shutdown in your cronjob?

What's about writing a line into /etc/rc.local

/sbin/shutdown -h 23:00&

This would wait to 11pm to shutdown.

Kai Wüstermann