[arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Wed Aug 7 09:50:53 EDT 2013


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Joe Eaves <jinux at alluha.net> wrote:

>
> How about something like 'shutdown -t 5'? I know if I put that into an SSH
> session manually, it'll print me a wall message and then I have some time
> to hit CTRL-D (or exit if I'm quick), so why would an automated command not
> be able to do the same?
>

Would it be possible to delay the reboot command whilst connected in an ssh
session by using something like:

# at now + 2 minutes systemctl reboot

then exit the ssh session and wait until the remote machine has rebooted?

I haven't tested it but is there a reason why this would not work?
-- 
mike c


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