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dolphin

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Nov 9, 2009, 6:17:39 AM11/9/09

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Hi,

I want to schdule shutdown with -t option but this option will prompt
me to answer "yes" or "no". How to go about putting in the yes in the
script?

Thanks in advance.

Igor Pozgaj

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Nov 9, 2009, 12:16:38 PM11/9/09

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On 2009-11-09, dolphin <yc28...@yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to schdule shutdown with -t option but this option will prompt
> me to answer "yes" or "no". How to go about putting in the yes in the
> script?

Something similar:

select CHOICE in yes no
do
case $CHOICE in
yes) shutdown ...;;
no) break;;
*) echo Invalid selection;;
esac
done

HTH,
Igor

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Ted Linnell

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Nov 10, 2009, 4:32:21 AM11/10/09

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Igor Pozgaj <ipo...@nospam.fly.srk.fer.hr> wrote:

>On 2009-11-09, dolphin <yc28...@yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to schdule shutdown with -t option but this option will prompt
>> me to answer "yes" or "no". How to go about putting in the yes in the
>> script?
>
>Something similar:
>
>select CHOICE in yes no
>do
> case $CHOICE in
> yes) shutdown ...;;
> no) break;;
> *) echo Invalid selection;;
> esac
>done
>
>HTH,
>Igor

I have not looked at AIX for a couple of years, but I seem to remember
a -y option (answer "yes" to all messages), of course that could be on
a different flavor, definitely on hp-ux.

Regards,

Ted.
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Heinrich Mislik

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Nov 10, 2009, 5:49:07 AM11/10/09

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In article <74fef70d-d215-429f...@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, yc28...@yahoo.com.sg says...

>I want to schdule shutdown with -t option but this option will prompt
>me to answer "yes" or "no". How to go about putting in the yes in the
>script?

/usr/sbin/shutdown is a ksh-script and simply does 'read ans'.

Try

yes | shutdown -t ....

cheers

Heinrich

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Gary R. Hook

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Nov 10, 2009, 2:50:18 PM11/10/09

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dolphin wrote:
> I want to schdule shutdown with -t option but this option will prompt
> me to answer "yes" or "no". How to go about putting in the yes in the
> script?

You might find it easier to use the 'at' command to run your job in the
future. For example, a remote command might be:

ssh remotesystem 'echo shutdown -Fr | at now'

Does a beautiful job of rebooting a remote system via an ssh command.
Not that ssh is required. Using at will also avoid the need to
interact with the command.

Barring that you can run 'yes | shutdown...'

Henry

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Nov 11, 2009, 10:45:08 PM11/11/09

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from the HMC ?

dolphin

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Nov 13, 2009, 12:55:41 AM11/13/09

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On Nov 10, 6:49 pm, Heinrich.Mis...@univie.ac.at (Heinrich Mislik)
wrote:
> In article <74fef70d-d215-429f-92c9-fc7e75de3...@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, yc282...@yahoo.com.sg says...

>
> >I want to schdule shutdown with -t option but this option will prompt
> >me to answer "yes" or "no". How to go about putting in the yes in the
> >script?
>
> /usr/sbin/shutdown is a ksh-script and simply does 'read ans'.
>
> Try
>
> yes | shutdown -t ....
>
> cheers
>
> Heinrich
>
> --
> Heinrich Mislik
> Zentraler Informatikdienst der Universitaet Wien
> A-1010 Wien, Universitaetsstrasse 7
> Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14056, Fax: (+43 1) 4277-9140

Hi Heinrich,

Your solution works. Thanks a lot :)

Niel Lambrechts

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Nov 14, 2009, 5:10:21 AM11/14/09

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On 2009/11/09 1:17 PM, dolphin wrote:
> I want to schdule shutdown with -t option but this option will prompt
> me to answer "yes" or "no". How to go about putting in the yes in the
> script?

shutdown -t now

Regards,
Niel