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


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