[ale] Automated shutdown

[Vernard Martin]

On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 14:07, Eric_Brubakken at aoncons.com wrote:
> 
> 
> What is the best way to shutdown a box automatically.  I have tried to use the
> shutdown command from within a cron job, but it errors out stating 'can not find
> file shutdown'


When using cron to issue commands you have to give the full path name of
the command. For shutdown, it wuld have to be something like
"/sbin/shutdown" so that it can actually execute it. 

hope this helps

V
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