[ale] Automated shutdown

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Vernard" == Vernard Martin <vernard at cc.gatech.edu> writes:

[...]

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

        Not to mention when executing things from scripts as root it's
good policy to explictly state the full path to things rather than
trusting PATH (unless you explictly set PATH yourself, which is also a
good idea).


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