autoboot Installer package (m68k only)
Courtesy of Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl

On newer NeXT hardware, when you are logged in as root, you can use the
Preferences app to set an auto startup time for your NeXT hardware. I always
found it a pity that this is not something you can set with a command line
program, so you can call it from cron and have the system power up at a
certain time and power down at another time for ever and ever (for instance
while you're on vacation so your mail and news get fetched automatically at
night). Now, there is such a program: autoboot.  It enables you to create a
setup where your computer starts up at a certain time, performs some tasks,
sets next power-up time and shuts down.

Autoboot is a program that interfaces to the clock chip on newer NeXT
hardware. Actually, it is a more friendly interface to a command line utility
that already exists on the system but probably nobody knows about until they
have read the autoboot man page.

The program is installed in /usr/etc and the man page in /usr/man/man8 to make
it available, even when only the root disk is mounted.

No warranty whatsoever. Solving this puzzle was almost as much fun as finding
a workaround for the famous POSIX-bugs... ;-)

Release 1.1, May 28, 1998