shutdown in 60 minutes?

[hanzf]

Hello,

I want to tell my puppy computer to keep running for a given time, e.g. another 60 minutes, and then shutdown.

I found this command:

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shutdown +60

but the puppy commandline tells me:

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bash: shutdown: command not found

The command

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halt

causes an immediate shutdown, but the +60 parameter has no effect.

How can I tell my computer to shutdown in 60 minutes?

thank you

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, hanzf.

I've just recently discovered how to do this myself.....and already I've forgotten where I found it..!

Anyway, try this for size:-

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sleep 60m && wmpoweroff &

That will give you 60 minutes of run-time from the moment you execute the script....then *click*; off she goes.

You can adjust this to any amount of time you want, by simply altering the '60m' to any number you require (in minutes). Might even work with 'h' for hours, too.....haven't tried that yet.

I've got two scripts saved in their own directory in /root; one for 30 minutes, and one for 60 minutes. To execute the one I want, I just click on it.

Let us know how you get on with it. This should work for any Pup.

BTW: Nice to run into someone else with an Athlon 64! How do you find it? I had a 3200+ for several years, before I 'upgraded' to an X2 (which fits in the same socket, of course). Puppy ran extremely well on the single-core; it just runs even better with the X2..!


Regards,

Mike.

[bigpup]

If it is just going to be running with no activity.