Hallo!
to see the laptop screen anyway. Cron I guess isn't going to work because I don't know beforehand the specified times I want shutdown to
okay, so you are right and it's maybe better to use [shell] ...
occur. In terms of [shell] I could be reckless and run from root. This is a dedicated machine so should be OK..
you could add "shutdown" to the sudoers-list (visudo), than you can run the command as user with "sudo shutdown ..."
LG Georg