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thebeancounter
Asked: 2017-04-12 01:51:42 +0800 CST

Automatic shutdown after 2 hours on every boot

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I am using both Ubuntu and Lubuntu 16.04 and this question is regarding both of them.

I want my computer to always shut down 2 hours after it was turned on, i tried to use these instructions that I found to run a timed shutdown on startup but it does not work.

How can I do that?

scripts

1 Answers

  1. 1.Edit sudoers (you must be root):

    gedit /etc/sudoers

    At the end add following:

    yourusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown

    and save.

    2.Crete .sh script:

    gedit myscript.sh

    add following there:

    #!/bin/sh
sudo shutdown -P +120 # shut down after 120 minutes

    3.run "startup applications" tool you just need write it in search box. And press Add button:

    startup applications

    Add

    Write there your .sh script name and path to it. Press add there too.

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