musther
August 20th, 2006, 09:33 PM
Some scripting I'm working on (wont go into details now) requires the machine to be restarted and then shutdown to halt:
1 Script Runs
2 Machine restarts
3 After booting is completed, the machine automatically shuts down and halts
So I'm looking for a way to pull this off, there must be something I can do, for example make the script create a small script file in an rc directory such that the shutdown will occur. If I place a script with the 'shutdown -h now' command in rc5, would that work? Also, how do I get the script to do this, I know I can use touch to create the file, but how do I put content in it, and I can I get it to delete itself so that it doesn't shut the machine down every time.
Thanks for your help.
1 Script Runs
2 Machine restarts
3 After booting is completed, the machine automatically shuts down and halts
So I'm looking for a way to pull this off, there must be something I can do, for example make the script create a small script file in an rc directory such that the shutdown will occur. If I place a script with the 'shutdown -h now' command in rc5, would that work? Also, how do I get the script to do this, I know I can use touch to create the file, but how do I put content in it, and I can I get it to delete itself so that it doesn't shut the machine down every time.
Thanks for your help.