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DOWNTIME(1)                                                        DOWNTIME(1)


NAME

       downtime - A GTK-based shutdown manager using shutdown(8)


SYNOPSIS

       downtime [ config-file ]


DESCRIPTION

       DownTime is a GTK front-end to the standard UNIX shutdown(8) utility,
       which must be present in some form on your system for DownTime to
       function correctly.

       Specify a configuration file on the command-line to override the
       default configuration file location.


REQUIREMENTS

       In order to work correctly, DownTime must be able to locate a
       shutdown(8) binary on the system. If it can't be found in the usual
       PATH, DownTime checks for it at "/sbin/shutdown".

       Furthermore, users hoping to make use of DownTime must have permission
       to execute shutdown(8) successfully (i.e., if you can't do a "shutdown
       -p now" from a command-line, DownTime isn't going to work either).

       On some systems (such as FreeBSD) the "/sbin/shutdown" binary is setuid
       root, so a user simply has to have "execute" permissions on the file. A
       thorough explanation of how this might be accomplished is out of scope
       here, but "chmod o+rx /sbin/shutdown" might do the trick. Please see
       the chmod(1) man(1) page for more information.

       On the other hand, some other systems (e.g., at least some Linuxes) do
       not implement such a configuration. Please consult the documentation
       for your system on how to allow ordinary users to execute shutdown(8)
       (DownTime has been verified to work under Ubuntu 8.10 using gksudo).


USAGE

       The DownTime interface is (hopefully!) highly intuitive and should
       present no problems for users.

       Particular DownTime configurations can be saved to DownTime files. For
       instance, if shutdowns of 55 minutes (approximately two TV episodes'
       length) and two hours (a common movie length) are regularly used,
       specifications for each can be saved to different DownTime files on the
       user's desktop or accessed through panel launchers. DownTime registers
       a file type association according to the freedesktop.org standards and
       launching a saved DownTime file will open DownTime with that
       configuration. If the "Auto run" setting was specified when the file
       was saved, a shutdown will automatically be started.

       Please note that, as shutdown(8) can only specify shutdowns with a
       granularity of one minute, pausing and resuming a shutdown will round
       the shutdown timer up to the nearest minute.


FILES

       ~/.downtime    default location for stored DownTime settings


LICENSE

       DownTime is released under a two-clause BSD license. Please check the
       file "COPYRIGHT" in the root of the DownTime source distribution for a
       full copy of the license.


CONTACT

       Should you wish to contact the DownTime developer(s), please to so via
       downtime@nickwithers.com


SEE ALSO

       chmod(1), shutdown(8)

                                  2010-02-20                       DOWNTIME(1)

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