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How to restrict use of a computer?
Suppose that some person is insomniac because of a bad habit of chatting on the IRC every night until 3AM. That completely ruins this person's life because he is unable to wake up on time to attend ...
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Shutting down your computer, and bringing it back up
I know a lot of people just leave their desktops on all night (including me) and resume zombi-ness in the morning. However, other than possible memory leaks, what are the pitfalls of this? I've seen ...
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Do Linux Live CDs properly shut down USB devices when you power off?
I’ve been using a Live CD with a USB drive that has my KeePassX database on it, when I shut the system down I noticed that the USB light doesn’t shut off before it asks me to remove the media (CD) and ...
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How to impede Linux shutting down my computer unless I explicitly want it?
This is a very general question. Let's say that some unwanted process randomly sends the shutdown signal and thus turns my server down. I don't manage to find the offending program, but I badly need ...
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How to register shutdown script on Amazon Linux in AWS EC2
I am using Amazon Linux (RH-based distro) in AWS EC2.
I followed the structure of /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysvinitfiles to create an init script in /etc/init.d.
/etc/init.d/do_something
#!/bin/...
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Preventing unused spare hdd from spinning up during suspend and shutdown
I recently replaced my sata hdd with an ssd, and keeping the hdd in as a spare. It's not used, not event mounted to filesystem. Yet, when suspending or shutting down the system, it quickly spins up, ...
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how to properly (or alternatively?) shutdown linux from terminal?
I wrote sudo shutdown now on my ubuntu VM terminal and the results were not what i expected. I expected results similar to shutting down through the desktop GUI but instead it shut down rather quickly ...
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how to shut down a server from the webinterface
I want to be able to shutdown my server remotely by clicking on a button on a web page. The server runs Ubuntu 14.04.1 64 Bit and a python web application. I have not decided which yet, but it will be ...
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How to remote shutdown a win XP machine from linux?
How do you remotely shutdown an XP host from a linux machine? I know that you can use
shutdown /s /f /m \IP_GOES_HERE
From windows, but how would you do that from linux? (wine does not port the ...
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Linux - Show unsaved applications before shutting down
When you shut down a macOS system, it asks applications to exit one by one, and the system will not shut down unless all applications agree to exit (aka. there is no unsaved work) or until they are ...
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Linux: How to really execute script at shutdown with systemd (not earlier!)?
I‘m running a host with x86-64 Arch Linux with Plasma with latest updates. Here I contact a NAS with wakeonlan, which works fine, so that I can mount an nfs and a Samba share after successful pinging ...
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How to skip shutdown of public linux (debain based) system?
I am running a program on a public computer and I want to avoid that other people may shut down it.
I do have the root password.
How to skip the shutdown using some commands?
I have zero idea of ...
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Debian cannot reboot nor shutdown
I'm stuck with a simple problem of rebooting with my installation of Debian 7.
I got inspired by this issue but it's not working. I tried a lot of combinations but still nothing.
I'm not sure ...
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Shutdown Windows machine remotely without telnet/ssh
I have been trying to shutdown a remote XP machine but cannot get it to budge.
I did the following on the Windows box:
Ensured no firewall
Started Remote Registry Editing service
Shared a network ...
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Encrypted Windows10 starts decrypted when it is rebooted after a system update
I am running fedora and windows 10 in dual boot, both oft which are encrypted separately.
Whenever windows 10 updates, while shutting down, the next time I boot up in windows I don't need to enter the ...
