Way to shut the PC down at a specific preset time?

[Me - Atlantic]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 07:44 -0500, Anthony D. wrote:
> Hello...
> 
> Is there a way to make Ubuntu shut a PC down automatically at a preset
> time each day? All I can find so far is the screensaver's "shut off
> after x minutes" function, which isn't what I'm looking for... thanks!
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
well, you could setup a cron job to execute shutdown -halt ...
type "man cron" at a command prompt to get the syntax for setting this
up (you will need su privilege to do this)