On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 21:37, Bjorn Nilsen wrote:
> When you run "halt" does you computer shutdown the turn off? If so then
> this is easy just use "at" to schedule the "halt" command.
>
> > From: antonovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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?
Better.. try this so it shuts down after the download
wget -c filename -options ; halt
or to shutdown only if command was sucessful...
wget -c etc etc && halt
Substitute other commands for wget as necessary.
