Automating system power down?

[Lindsay Hill]

Hi,

We are currently trying to find a way to get our systems to power themselves down, in an automated way. We can execute a normal shutdown -h -y 0 command, and then use the web consoles to execute a power down command, but we would like to be able to automate it so that we do not have to manually login through the web console.

Currently we have a range of servers we would like to do this on (A, L, N, V, K, T, etc -class).

Irix has the option of shutdown -p on some SGI models, and we would like to find some way of achieving the same outcome.

Any thoughts on how we might do this?

- Lindsay

[Marcel Boon]

Hi,

Your problem can be resolved with crontab.
Crontab is used for automatic jobs.

See "man cron"

Marcel