shutdown via crontab?

John C. Sucilla jcs at tarkus.UUCP
Wed Sep 7 10:13:53 AEST 1988


In article <6512 at chinet.UUCP> dsueme at chinet.UUCP (dave sueme) writes:
>Can a crontab entry be devised so that smgr will shut down a 7300?

Don't see why not.

>My attempts to put /etc/shutdown in chrontab are failing probably

Dave,
Try putting this string in your crontab:
/bin/su root -c "/usr/lib/lpshut > /dev/null 2> /dev/null;sync;init s;sleep 1"
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