On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > 'at' is a one time deal. It is fine if you want your machine to > shutdown at a specific time. I also use it to _start_ the download of > iso or big package files after midnight but what about shutting down > the machine after the download is complete? It is not deterministic > therefore you need to monitor the no. of TCP connections on your > system at regular intervals. IMO, cron is the best option. >
Oops. This thread is getting a bit tedious. Let us move on. The idea is never to cron this reboot business. I run the script I sent only when I feel like it. Not always. So it is one shot like at(1). So at(1) is a good tool to use for this purpose too. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
