How to Shutdown Your PC Automatically In UBUNTU

We showed you how to schedule a task in Windows 7 to automatically shutdown your PC. This tutorial shows you how to do the same in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

Getting started:

To get stared, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. Then type the command below to install Gnome Schedule.

sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule

After installing, press Alt-F2 on your keyboard to open ‘Run Application’ Then type the command below to launch Gnome Schedule as root.

gksu gnome-schedule

Next, click ‘New –> Recurrent task’

Then type the description, command and time & date. The command to shutdown your pc is shown below:

/sbin/poweroff

The task is scheduled to run at midnight every day.

That’s all. Your PC is going to automatically shutdown at midnight.



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