Re: Taking down PPP at a certain hour of the day

To: mstone@io.org (Matthew Stone)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Taking down PPP at a certain hour of the day
From: thb@regioservice.de (Thomas Baetzler)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:27:37 +0100 (MET)
Message-id: <[🔎] m0vc6fZ-000Bj9C@hestia.regioservice.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.BSF.3.95.961223034719.14975A-100000@zot.io.org> from "Matthew Stone" at Dec 23, 96 03:53:27 am

> I am wondering.. how I can do this.. I would like to create a script that
> run in the background and check the time.. if it is 8am it do a

cron provides the ability to run specified programs at a certain time. See
the man page for more details. You should be able to write a small script
that just does the things you want if you just want to fake a shutdown.
If you want to run a real shutdown, just run shutdown.

Ciao,
Thomas


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