On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Bradley <pursley001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay, > > I am starting to do some more advanced automated maintenance on my > system but can't find a nifty way to do something and was wondering if > anyone out there can help me with this. I am configuring my system to > do an automated backup of all my data (2 to 4 hours per week) but need > it to do certain things to protect the process. > > For an unattended process, I need to know how to: > > 1. Force all users currently logged on to be logged off (preferably > with at least a 5 minute notice). > 2. Prevent anyone from logging on. > 3. Prevent the system from being shut down or rebooted. > 4. Shut down the X server (speeds up processing time considerably). > 5. After finished to restart X server and allow shutdown and logins. > > If anyone knows any commands to do at least some of these, I would > appreciate knowing how. The part about shutting down the X server is > optional but would be nice but not allowing anyone to be logged in and > preventing system shut down is necessary. > > Bradley My 0.02 cents. start by doing man on login, nologin, shutdown, killall etc... /etc/nologin -- prevents user logins shutdown -k Don't really shutdown; only send the warning messages to everybody. killall -u, --user Kill only processes the specified user owns. Command names are optional. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines