Are there software that can set time to power off?[SOLVED]

[rudysuryanto]

I want to turn of my computer automatically in time that I want, are the any software that run under Linux that can automatically power off computer, in time that I have set before? Thank's.

[Biker]

No need for an app. Create a script that shuts down the computer and set it to run via Cron.

[Carl]

I've used gshutdown in the past (in the repo) seemed to do the job

[nono]

Just a little tip.

You can set Mint to shutdown at the time you want via terminal.
First you have to have root priveleges

In terminal type:

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sudo su

It will ask to enter your root password

after that,

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shutdown -h hh:mm

hh is the hour and mm is the minutes.
Use 24-hour format (example. shutdown 13:00)
This will automatically shutdown mint at 1pm

[Biker]

Writing a simple script and running via Cron allows you to skip having to do that every time you want it to shut down at a specific time.

[nono]

@Biker

I don't know how to write a script so I use this.

But in the near future, I will reasearch on how to do it. Is it easy to learn?

[Biker]

Writing a simple script is easy!

Open your favorite text editor.

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#!/bin/sh
/sbin/shutdown -P

Make the script executable, then set it to run at the desired time via Cron.

[nono]

Thanks for the nano tutorial Biker.

[Biker]

Most welcome. Simple scripts are easy. Very similar to batch files you could create in DOS.