Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:41:12 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: stan <stanb@awod.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Rebooting mahien from cron Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0203051538070.16542-100000@bark> In-Reply-To: <20020305143503.GA14176@teddy.fas.com>
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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, stan wrote: > I have a FreeBSD machien that I need to reboot at a scheduled time. (Yes I > know this is a bad idae, trust me it's a short tem hack). > > I tried puting the following line in roots crontab using crontab -e > > 59 23 * * 2 '/sbin/shutdown -r now' > > But the only result was that I got mailed an error message saying cron > could not find /sbin/shutdown. > > What am I doing wrong here? I don't think you need the ' around the command, but this is probably not your problem. More important, are you using the crontab of root, and hence executing the shutdown as this user? /Paul E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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