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From: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: shutdown via crontab?
Keywords: can it be done?
Message-ID: <236@tarkus.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 00:13:53 GMT
References: <6512@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
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In article <6512@chinet.UUCP> dsueme@chinet.UUCP (dave sueme) writes:
>Can a crontab entry be devised so that smgr will shut down a 7300?

Don't see why not.

>My attempts to put /etc/shutdown in chrontab are failing probably

Dave,
Try putting this string in your crontab:
/bin/su root -c "/usr/lib/lpshut > /dev/null 2> /dev/null;sync;init s;sleep 1"
-- 
John "C". Sucilla,  A silicon based life form.
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