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How can I catch or stop a Linux shut down from the terminal?
Is there a way to catch or stop a Linux shut down after a reboot, halt or shutdown command has been entered?
sudo shutdown -r +10
I should now have 10 minutes before the computer shuts down. If I ...
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What is the proper way to enable a normal user to shutdown, halt or reboot the computer?
My dirty solution is to chmod +s /sbin/shutdown. It works but this is probably not good practice and insecure. Moreover after some system updates the suid bit gets reset. What would be the correct way ...
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Poweroff , damages hardware?
So i've been using poweroff command to shutdown my computer at a specific hour.
Is it okay for the hardware to do this (e.g hard drives)? Or should I use other system call?
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Execute script before shutting down in Ubuntu
When I shut down my computer I want to show some pending tasks that I have to do before leaving the office.
I have a local application to manage those tasks, so basically I just want to run a command,...
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Run a script on systemd service ONLY at shutdown not restart
[Unit]
Description=test
Before=shutdown.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/true
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/test.sh
RemainAfterExit=yes
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
I tried a lots of ...
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Run script before other units stop on shutdown
I need to run a script before a set of other services on my machine stop when shutting the machine down. (In my case, terminating an EC2 instance.)
I have tried variations on the answer in this ...
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How do I shutdown a Linux box without running init 0
I want to shutdown my computer as if power was cut off (don't ask me why). How do I do this under Linux?
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A keyboard shortcut for the "status menu" in GNOME 3
Is there a keyboard shortcut, or can a keyboard shortcut be defined, to open the GNOME 3 "status menu" (the one in the upper right corner with your name on it that you use to log out, restart or shut ...
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system-wide crontab vs. user crontab to shutdown pc
I'm trying to shutdwon my pc at 2 am once a week.
If I use the user crontab of root (sudo crontab -e)
30 2 * * 3 shutdown -h now
the shutdown will not be performed.
However, if I place the same ...
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Shutdown Ubuntu Command
What is the command or application that allows a user to shutdown the computer from gnome. And how does it have privileges while halt requires superuser?
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Will the linux "shutdown" command allow a parameter to determine the pause between sending SIGTERM and SIGKILL?
The man page seems to indicate no. There is /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt on Fedora. It has a hard coded pause in it, but there's got to be a better way than to change that script. Any help would be ...
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Why does net rpc shutdown fail with the right credentials?
The command
$ net rpc SHUTDOWN -f -I xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -U uname%psswd
Fails with the following errors:
Could not connect to server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
The username or password was not correct.
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How do I shutdown Slitaz from terminal?
I have Slitaz installed on my home server and the only way of interfacing with it is through and SSH connection. I have tried
shutdown -h now
But it only tells me shutdown is not a command
So I ...
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Autorun zerofree on boot (or on shutdown)
I have a virtualbox vitual server that keeps growing. To keep its virtual disk small I'm manually shrinking it using VBoxManage modifyhd disk.vdi compart after zeroing unused space on the disk using ...
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When I quit xmonad, how can I make it shut down applications nicely?
When I quit xmonad (Shift-Mod-Q), it kills all my running applications. This results in me losing my recent terminal history in gnome-terminal and in Chromium complaining on the next start up that it ...
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