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Scheduled Shutdown using cron

Posted by Arsh | Labels: Ubuntu, Utilities | Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009

Use the command
$ crontab -e
In the editor window write
0 9 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now
This will shutdown your computer at 9 hrs. After this restart cron service:
sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart

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