[QCLUG] Kid timer

[Jason Sweat]

On 7/17/06, Jim Hall <volunteer.jim@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2.)  I added the above line to '/etc/crontab'. Shutdown did occur, but no
> message poped up on the screen. Or, if it did, it was momentary. I believe
> 'cron' is 'Vixie cron', if that makes any difference.
>
> Jim

from man shutdown:
   -t sec Tell init(8) to wait sec seconds between sending processes
the warning and the kill sig-
              nal, before changing to another runlevel.

-t 300 should do it



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Regards,
Jason
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