# set-shutdown-delay command

The set-shutdown-delay command is provided
primarily for installations which have disk-caching hard-disk controllers.
This provides time for the disk to flush.

**For Windows:**Not Supported

The delay must
be a positive integer between 1 and 65536. Without any parameters,
the current shutdown delay displays. The default is 512.

## Syntax

```
set-shutdown-delay {number.seconds} {(options}
```

## Parameter(s)

| options | s | Sets monitor shutdown delay using the shutdown-delay item in the system-config file. |
| --- | --- | --- |
| u | Updates the shutdown-delay item in the system-config file with the given delay value. | |

## Example(s)

Sets the shutdown delay to five
minutes.

```
set-shutdown-delay 300
```

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Source: https://d3codex.com/tcl/set-shutdown-delay-command/ - part of the D3Codex reference.