On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:07:45 +0100 antonovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is there any easy way for me to set a timer (via an instruction or > script) to poweroff? It would be good to be able to do this when > leaving the machine going after long downloads or transcodes. Would it > be easier to download some apps to handle this? If they exist what are > they? Cheers > anton > > the other thing you might like to consider is that you don't know how long your download is going to take. Its therefore more logical to program the shutdown for after it finishes, for eaxample: wget http://download.site/long.iso && halt halt will happen after wget finishes.
