On Jo, 20 feb 14, 07:56:38, Tom Furie wrote: > 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.
Assuming said command doesn't have such functionality 'at' would be the better tool anyway. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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