Reboot Now vs Schedule Reboot

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version ubuntu 22, 24 & 26
Webmin version 2.660

When updates require a system reboot, it would be much more convenient to be able to schedule a reboot for a bit later than to remember to return later to manually reboot the system. I must currently open a terminal and use the ‘shutdown -r hh:mm’ command to schedule the reboot.

I’m just wishing and hoping that someone could add an option to schedule a reboot for later, when a reboot is necessary, instead of just giving the option of NOW or ignoring the condition. From a customer point of view, it doesn’t seem like this should be too difficult, since webmin can already reboot the system and other “root” tasks. I guess the hardest part would be a form to let the user input the scheduled time to reboot.

Oh well, probably a pipe dream, but I hope it doesn’t hurt to ask!

PS: If this belongs somewhere else, please let me know where I should go to repost this feature request. Thanks!

I’d discourage rebooting a server on a schedule. You generally ought to be looking at it when rebooting, to make sure it comes back up with the new kernel (the only reason for a reboot on a Linux server is a kernel upgrade).