On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:54, C Falconer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 22:59, Dave Garlick wrote:
> > I was wanting to use Ktimer to auto shut down (such as after a long download 
> > etc.) can anyone help with the command to run???
> 
> wget -c http://www.foo.org/file.tgz ; shutdown -rft 3 now
Use 'shutdown -hft 3 now' to halt rather than reboot

> (most distros need to run shutdown as root though)
True but if you add the follwoing line to /etc/sudoers using visudo you
should be in good shape.

%users  localhost= NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -hft 3 now

users = name of group allowed to execute the shutdown command
localhost = your computer's name
NOPASSWD: = means you won't have to stick around to enter your password.

HTH :>
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Rob Stockley
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