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Date:      Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:42:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jim Weeks <jim@jwweeks.com>
To:        "PsYxAkIaS (FreeBSD)" <freebsd@psyxakias.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cannot reboot from a script ran by root's crontab
Message-ID:  <20030614133557.X4189-100000@veager.jwweeks.com>
In-Reply-To: <000a01c33105$8e4e4ec0$152ea8c0@computer>

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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, PsYxAkIaS (FreeBSD) wrote:

> $ cat /usr/sbin/checkre
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir /tmp/reboot
> reboot now

I would assume that crontab can't find "reboot", ie "sbin" isn't in your
path. (/sbin/reboot now)

> $ crontab -l
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/sbin/checkre >/dev/null 2>&1

This could be more easily written in this manner;

0-59/5  * * * * /usr/sbin/checkre >/dev/null 2>&1

BTW, ">/dev/null" is the reason you aren't seeing the "not found error".

Hope this helps,
--
Jim



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