Thanks to the many people who responded so quickly. Several people
reminded me that 'shutdown -h' does not do a smooth shutdown under
Tru64 4.0 because the rc0 scripts don't get executed. The most
reassuring response was from Bert De Knuydt who said
I've done this before and as far as I remember there are no gotchas...
Original question was:
> This weekend there is going to be a scheduled power shutdown on our
> campus. I would like to schedule a controlled shutdown without having to
> send someone in at unsocial hours. Are there any gotchas with using 'at'
> to do this? Like the shutdown command insisting on talking to a terminal
> device? I don't have any chance to practise this!
>
> The shutdown command I plan to use is:
> /usr/sbin/shutdown -h +5 "Campus power shutdown, back up about 13:15"
Cheers,
Bob
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Bob Vickers R.Vickers_at_dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
WWW: http://www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/home/bobv
Phone: +44 1784 443691
Received on Wed Dec 08 1999 - 15:32:57 NZDT