On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:21:17 -0700 Barry Yu wrote:
> I intended to shutdown the system in 10 second when issued command ;
> shutdown -h -t secs 10, and I got the result displayed;
> The system is going DOWN for halt in 10 minutes! (Actually 10 seconds
> are what I want)
> Have I missed something?
Maybe the man page which says:
| NAME
| shutdown - bring the system down
|
| SYNOPSIS
| /sbin/shutdown [-t sec] [-arkhncfF] time [warning-message]
..
| time When to shutdown
..
| The time argument can have different formats. First, it can be an
| absolute time in the format hh:mm, in which hh is the hour (1 or 2
| digits) and mm is the minute of the hour (in two digits). Second, it
| can be in the format +m, in which m is the number of minutes to wait.
| The word now is an alias for +0.
The time is in minutes. Maybe you want
sleep 10 ; shutdown -h now
--Frank Elsner
