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Re: how to start a delayed shutdown over ssh and disconnect immediately?



On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM, David
Christensen<dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
>
> I don't see a time delay option for poweroff.  I need a time delay to
> solve chicken and egg problems with shared folders, name resolution,
> etc. -- e.g. I need to tell all the machines to shutdown while they're
> all still running.  If the wrong machine shutdowns down prematurely, the
> overall shutdown script fails and I end up with some machines up and
> some machines down.

It seems to me that THIS is the problem that you should be solving,
not how to time your shutdown to be just right.

mrc


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