(Solved)Auto shutdown at 10:30PM daily

[opale7000]

Hello All

What would be a way for me to auto shutdown my computer everyday at 10:30PM

Linux mint 18.1 Cinnamon

[now3by]

crontab is your friend:

sudo crontab -e

and add this lines:

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# shutdown every night at 22:30
30 22    * * *    /sbin/shutdown -h now

[acerimusdux]

This is one of those that might have more than one good answer.

But I think the typical unix way would be to run a cron job. Which you can do by editing your crontab file. The following for example would add the needed line to /etc/crontab:

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sudo bash -c 'echo "30 22   * * *   root    /sbin/shutdown -h now" >> /etc/crontab'

The line actually added to the file is everything between the " quotes. You could also just open an editor as root and add this line. The 30 22 is just minutes, hours (in 24 hr format), so means 10:30 PM. The three stars after that indicate to run every day, every month, every day of the week. Then you have the user to run the command, and the command to be run.

edit: ah, now3by beat me to it. And using crontab -e looks like the easiest way to edit the file.

[opale7000]

Agreed that there numerous ways to shut down and will try the following for tonight

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# m h  dom mon dow   command

30 22 * * * sudo poweroff

And if no go will try your other options. Thanks guys

[acerimusdux]

Don't think you want to run sudo from crontab. If you use roots crontab (in /etc/crontab, accessed by sudo crontab -e) it will already run with root permissions. And actually, you don't need to be root to run shutdown in Mint. So you could just do crontab -e, and add the poweroff -h command there.

[opale7000]

Don't think you want to run sudo from crontab. If you use roots crontab (in /etc/crontab, accessed by sudo crontab -e) it will already run with root permissions. And actually, you don't need to be root to run shutdown in Mint. So you could just do crontab -e, and add the poweroff -h command there.

Much appreciated. Will revise. Thanks

[opale7000]

Only gsShutdown app does the job. All crontab commands do not work for me.