Auto Timer Poweroff/Shutdown utility/software

[nam5301]

I don't think anyone in this forum has brought this up, but, I was wondering if anyone know if there is a utility for backtrack that enables automatic system poweroff ? meaning I can set the program to automatically poweroff the computer/backtrack after 2 hours or 3 hrs or 5 hrs/ etc....

[Archangel-Amael]

# shutdown -P 60 or any other time (in minutes) you want. Or even something like shutdown -h 23:00 &
There is also the use of cron if you want to do this every day without typing the above each time.

Also this is really a basic linux task and not much to do with BackTrack.

[iproute]

ditto on cron job

[nam5301]

# shutdown -P 60 or any other time (in minutes) you want. Or even something like shutdown -h 23:00 &
There is also the use of cron if you want to do this every day without typing the above each time.

Also this is really a basic linux task and not much to do with BackTrack.

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Well I was hoping if there some a GUI/Software that can run to set a timer for the auto poweroff/shutdown. In windows I use a small program called AutoShutdown, it runs in the system tray, you just set the time before shutdown and it shuts down PC after time expires.

[iproute]

For a cron gui

apt-get install kcron

[Archangel-Amael]

This is not windows. But yes there are gui tools available I suppose.
But really this topic is not for BackTrack Linux.
Again the best and easiest way is just to open a shell and type the above.
Heck man you can even make a script from that and save it in root (the desktop) click on it to run it when you want.

#!/bin/sh
shutdown -P 60 &
save it as shutdown.sh and then run # chmod +x and your all set.