Shutdown Script

[Beencountry]

I am brand new with Fedora and Linux in all. I use Macs and PCs in the past. Now I have two Fedora computers running together, I want to create a script to shut both down at the same time. How do I do this, Say I wanted to have them both shut down by midnight every night. How would I go about doing this? I created a script for windows to do this, but that is completely different from Linux. I run the latest fedora, and no absolutely nothing about scripting in linux.


Thanks For any help

[kingcasino]

You can use crontab for auto task...

In your case. EXample use crontab...

59 23 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now

Mean:

at 23h59min, all days of month, all month of year and all day of week

Your system will auto shutdown...

Best regard...

[ramesh.mimit]

You can use crontab for auto task...

In your case. EXample use crontab...

59 23 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now

Mean:

at 23h59min, all days of month, all month of year and all day of week

Your system will auto shutdown...

Best regard...

Let me correct you,

59 23 * * * "/sbin/shutdown -h now"

Sometimes its does not work without quotes. It will shutdown your PC everyday at 11:59PM. You can adjust your timing as per yr requirements.

-Ramesh

[kingcasino]

OH,

I miss " "

Thanks Ramesh

[mbuell]

Jic you didn't - investigate cron and crontab. The previous replies gave you a very specific reply - and a good one. The general reply is that cron holds the key to the your question's answer.

[Beencountry]

Thanks guys,

So I have looked into the crontab. I created the crontab by going into my terminal typing crontab -e and then it brings up what looks to me a vi screen. From here I type in what I want the crontab to do (what you guys gave me). so just

59 23 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now (I tried with and with out quotations)

Then I hold shift + ZZ to save and exit, it then goes back to the terminal and says

crontab: installing new crontab

But then it never executes. my computer never shuts down. If I type crontab -l to see what I have it shows

59 23 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now ....so it is there

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for everything so far

[kingcasino]

Hi Beencountry,

You type following command and test it again:

59 23 * * * "/sbin/shutdown -h now"

---- Note: " "

Good luck !

[Beencountry]

Sorry I don't mean to seem like a pain, But Yea I copied and pasted that, and it still didn't work. I got to be doing something wrong I'm not sure, Is there maybe a script I can write that will do this? A script that will either create the crontab or one that will just simply shut down the computer?