How to Install and Uninstall shutdown-at-night Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "shutdown-at-night" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install shutdown-at-night on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                shutdown-at-night
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "shutdown-at-night" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall shutdown-at-night on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                shutdown-at-night
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the shutdown-at-night package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: shutdown-at-night
Architecture: all
Version: 0.23
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Edu Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 34
Depends: cron | cron-daemon, ethtool, fping, ng-utils, wakeonlan, x11-utils, perl:any
Recommends: nvram-wakeup
Suggests: sitesummary
Filename: pool/universe/s/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night_0.23_all.deb
Size: 9000
MD5sum: be9857507c94aa8bd651b31d893f4699
SHA1: f2b41b37088fea5909cbfa96cd0dfec3397c619c
SHA256: 698ac49ba3b5151bc820b2334527b5b6af3a13840f045606f77c7408b11f7058
SHA512: 0046e8e8f4d4efa5784a1bc4c1490fe46cf55104fb83da3a9b6b546d4821b4d93c1da1f441d34434555f18f77f730af93e0be60fa0d97e68045aa20ca3549026
Description-en: System to shut down clients at night, and wake them in the morning
With this tool you can schedule regular shutdowns of workstations in the
evening, and also wake them up every morning, using either nvram-wakeup, ACPI
wakeup or wake-on-lan.
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For the wake-on-lan wake-up sequence you need one awake machine on your local
network / subnet. This can be a server machine or a client machine that got
just previously woken up by nvram-wakeup.
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The shutdown sequence will be initiated hourly after 4pm via a CRON job.
However, only machines that appear inactive / unused will be shut down.
Machines that are currently in use will remain up and running.
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The Shutdown-at-Night tool can be activated via a config file or via
membership in a NIS netgroup called shutdown-at-night-hosts.
Description-md5: 56d637309b39caca8e8f93fdaf54da0a