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

[Morten W. J.]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 14:44, Anthony D. wrote:
> 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!

You could insert the line

42 17   * * *   root    shutdown -h now

into your /etc/crontab file.

This will cause linux to shutdown at 17:42 any day.


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