On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I find that shutdown can take a time argument > so why do I bother with cron > > Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway! Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdown or reboot the machine on some definable interval without usually having to worry about it. If it's just a one time delayed shutdown, then yes, using the functionality built in to shutdown would be the better approach. Cheers, Tom -- A bachelor is an unaltared male.
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