Automatic Shutdown

[shane]

I think cron would be the ideal tool to use if you would like to shutdown irrespective of whatever is happening and without any input from you.

Here are some links to help you:
http://www.review-ninja.com/2009/03/eas ... howto.html
http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm
http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/cron/

Add your cron job to the root user's jobs by running 'sudo crontab' instead of just 'crontab'

If you want to initiate the shutdown manually every time but have it shutdown at a later point in time, this can be easily done with a simple command.

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sudo shutdown -h 01:00

This will shutdown the machine at 1am. Run 'man shutdown' for more info.