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qshutdown(1)						      General Commands Manual						      qshutdown(1)

NAME

       qshutdown - An avanced shutdown tool

SYNOPSIS

       qshutdown [options]

DESCRIPTION

       qshutdown  is  a simple tool to choose a time or a number of minutes to shutdown, reboot, suspend or hibernate after.

       qshutdown  will	show itself 3 times as a warning if there are less  than 70  seconds  left.  (if  1 Minute or local time +1 Minute was set
       it'll appear only once.)

       This program uses qdbus	to  send  a shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate request  to   either   the   gnome-   or	 kde-session-manager,	to
       HAL/ConsoleKit/DeviceKit/UPower and if none of these works, the command	'sudo shutdown'  will  be  used.

OPTIONS

       -h --help
	      Prints options with description.

       -i     Prints information about qshutdown.

       -v     Prints all errors and warnings.

NOTES

       When sending the request to HAL or ConsoleKit, or the shutdown command is used, the Session will never be saved. If the shutdown command is
       used, the program will only be able to shutdown and reboot.

       If nothing happens when the shutdown- or reboot-time is reached, it means that one lacks the rights for the shutdown command. In this  case
       one can do the following: Post the following in a terminal:

	$ EDITOR=nano sudo -E visudo

       and add this line:

	* ALL = NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown

       whereas * replaces the username or %groupname.

For admins:
       If you want qshutdown to run with "parental lock" for every user, you can do

	$ sudo cp /usr/share/qshutdown/autostart/99qshutdown /etc/X11/Xsession.d/

       and  set  the  option  Lock_all	in  /root/.qshutdown/qshutdown.conf to true. Note that qshutdown has to start once  to generate the qshut-
       down.conf. Furthermore there is a need to do

	$ EDITOR=nano sudo -E visudo

       and add the following line to the sudoers:

	* ALL = NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/qshutdown

       If you should ever forget your set password, just remove the whole line starting with Password manually from the qshutdown.conf.

FILES

       The configurationfile (and logfile) is located at ~/.qshutdown/ (under Linux/Unix).  The maximum Number of countdown_minutes  is  1440  (24
       hours).

KNOWN ISSUES

       There is no system tray icon for qshutdown in Ubuntu 11.04.
       SOLUTION: Type the following line in a terminal:

	$ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"

HINTS ON USAGE

       If you want qshutdown to stop "bugging" you, just remove the hook from "warnings on?".

HOTKEYS

       Ctrl+I	 information window

       Ctrl+Q	 Quit

       Ctrl+P	 Prefereces

       Ctrl+L	 write the run time once into the logfile (works
	      only if qshutdown quits. To make it permanent set it in the preferences.)

       Ctrl+S	 set to shutdown

       Ctrl+R	 set to restart

       Ctrl+U	 set to suspend to RAM

       Ctrl+H	 set to hibernate

       Ctrl+E	 stop timer (only if the countdown has started and
	      the admin didn't restrict the access)

       Shift+E	 to edit the config file (for this a password is
	      necessary. If you are a user, you can set an "empty password" (leave the password field empty)).

AUTHOR

       Christian Metscher <hakaishi@web.de>

								    2011-10-23							      qshutdown(1)

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SHUTDOWN(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       SHUTDOWN(8)

NAME

       shutdown - close down the system at a given time

SYNOPSIS

       shutdown [ -k ] [ -r ] [ -h ] [ -f ] [ -n ] time [ warning-message ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       Shutdown  provides an automated shutdown procedure which a super-user can use to notify users nicely when the system is shutting down, sav-
       ing them from system administrators, hackers, and gurus, who would otherwise not bother with niceties.

       Time is the time at which shutdown will bring the system down and may be the word now (indicating  an  immediate  shutdown)  or	specify  a
       future time in one of two formats: +number and hour:min.  The first form brings the system down in number minutes and the second brings the
       system down at the time of day indicated (as a 24-hour clock).

       At intervals which get closer together as apocalypse approaches, warning messages are displayed at the terminals of all users on  the  sys-
       tem.   Five minutes before shutdown, or immediately if shutdown is in less than 5 minutes, logins are disabled by creating /etc/nologin and
       writing a message there.  If this file exists when a user attempts to log in, login(1) prints its contents and exits.  The file is  removed
       just before shutdown exits.

       At  shutdown  time a message is written in the system log, containing the time of shutdown, who ran shutdown and the reason.  Then a termi-
       nate signal is sent to init to bring the system down to single-user state.  Alternatively, if -r, -h, or -k was used,  then  shutdown  will
       exec  reboot(8), halt(8), or avoid shutting the system down (respectively).  (If it isn't obvious, -k is to make people think the system is
       going down!)

       With the -f option, shutdown arranges, in the manner of fastboot(8), that when the system is rebooted the file systems will not be checked.
       The -n option prevents the normal sync(2) before stopping.

       The  time  of  the shutdown and the warning message are placed in /etc/nologin and should be used to inform the users about when the system
       will be back up and why it is going down (or anything else).

FILES

       /etc/nologin   tells login not to let anyone log in

SEE ALSO

       login(1), reboot(8), fastboot(8)

BUGS

       Only allows you to kill the system between now and 23:59 if you use the absolute time for shutdown.

4th Berkeley Distribution					 November 16, 1996						       SHUTDOWN(8)
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