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Old 05-29-2007
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First you want a shell script which wraps up the shutdown...

First

mkdir /root

put the following in /root/shutdown.sh


Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo trying to shutdown at `date`>>/root/shutdown.log
shutdown -h now >>/root/shutdown.log

then chmod +x /root/shutdown.sh

get the current crontab

crontab -l >crontab

edit crontab and add

when-to-do-it-according-to-crontab /root/shutdown.sh

finally

crontab crontab

then check with

crontab -l