How to schedule auto shutdown and not wait 10 minutes

I am working on an installation of a mac mini at a kiosk and need it to shutdown at a certain time every day. But when I set it to shutdown at 9pm a countdown starts from 10minutes. Is there a way to make this shutdown in 30 seconds?

yes, it does seem to give a 10 minute warning. not sure why this is a problem. can't you just schedule it to shut down at 8:50pm if it has to be on till 9pm? other than this you can always bypass the energy saver (just turn it off) and schedule a shutdown using your own launch daemon. get lingon http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/files/ and make a *users daemon* that runs every day at 9pm an executes the command
shutdown -h now
Note: this will give NO warning and just shut down the system at 9pm every day.

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Gmatroni it should only need cti enabled but i have tried it with the control groups as well to no avail.he
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I still believe this is some kind of application/software incompatibility issue.
Maybe you could recommend a sugested patch?
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