Re: Computer shut down from within Octave?

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 10/04/2012 11:50 AM, babelproofreader wrote:
> Is this possible? For example, if I want to run some script overnight while
> sleeping and I'm not sure exactly how long it will take, is there some
> command from within Octave that can be sent to the computer system to shut
> down the computer after the script has finished running? My motivation is
> simply that if the script stops at say 2 am I don't want the computer to be
> on unnecessarily for perhaps another 4 or 5 hours.

I think you'd be better off by making sure your computer goes to one of 
the sleep/suspend modes. When it suspends both the monitor and the 
motherboard, it should draw single watts or less, and be very quiet 
because disks and fans should be off.