Last night, i had a situation. A download was running on my Windows Server 2003 machine. But i had to retire for the bed and shutdown the machine after two hours. The command line interface permits to shutdown machine till a maximum of ten minutes* delay only. Hence, i started surfing the web for some auto shutdown timer softwares. But apart from giving fancy multicolored buttons for reboot and standby, i got nothing useful. Then i came up with the following.
File – shutdown.pl
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#! /usr/bin/perl
sleep(5400); # time in seconds after which you want to shutdown.Its 5400 seconds here or 90 minutes.
system(”shutdown /s /t 00″);
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Run the program as perl shutdown.pl
And my job was done. However there might be more smarter ways to handle the situation.
File – shutdown.pl
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#! /usr/bin/perl
sleep(5400); # time in seconds after which you want to shutdown.Its 5400 seconds here or 90 minutes.
system(”shutdown /s /t 00″);
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Run the program as perl shutdown.pl
And my job was done. However there might be more smarter ways to handle the situation.
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*type shutdown on windows server 2003 command prompt and read carefully
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ha h a… know dude. its not the case. Many people read it. Check the older posts …
i guess u cud hav used normal shutdown command with certain parameters.. m not sure abt server2003.. but it wrks pretty well on xp..
@devil
ya dude. but it allows only till 10 minutes time … i have mentioned that !
Looks like it is the OS , In XP , shutdown -t “time in seconds” works . And it works for more than 10 minutes also.
shutdown -s -t 5400 -c “I am shutting down , this message cant be removed”
@Thejasvi that limit is in Server 2003 . You did not follow “*”