On 05/16/2011 09:45 PM, Alex Lardner wrote:
Hello, I am stumped over how to use -t during shutdown. I tried: shutdown -t 60 System going down in one minute! and shutdown -t 60 now System going down in one minute! but neither worked as expected. Help me, please! Thanks, Alex
The -t option is to set the "delay between warning and kill signal" shutdown time (no -t) is what you want, where time is a [hh:]mm time value.
From the man page for shutdown:"The time argument can have different formats. First, it can be an absolute time in the format hh:mm, in which hh is the hour (1 or 2 digits) and mm is the minute of the hour (in two digits). Second, it can be in the format +m, in which m is the number of minutes to wait The word now is an alias for +0.
-- Michael Checca