Rob thanks for the info
cheers...................dave On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:51, you wrote: > 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 :> -- cheers.............dave Reply to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ----------------------------------------- KMail on Davesmachine Linux Mandrake release 9.1 (Bamboo) i586 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686[ELF] -----------------------------------------
