Re: [Sheflug] Can you help me with this one?

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

look at the man pages for shutdown.

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:

> Any chance you can help me with this (simple) little query?
> 
> I want to set a (Mandrake 7) box up to act as a Samba server to a 
> predominantly M$ populated network. The Mandrake box will like as not 
> operate without any logins for the vast majority of the time. Since very 
> few people here know anything about Linux I want to keep the system as 
> "hands free" as I can. We normally shut our servers down at close of play 
> on a Friday afternoon and I'd like to automate this task by running "halt" 
> as a cron job. My question is, what would be the cron line I need?
> 
> I've done some playing around with /etc/crontab but the following line only 
> seems to work when root is logged in.
> 
> 00 15 * * * root halt
> 
> Any help appreciated
> 
> Steve
> 
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