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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Dan Mahoney <dmahoney@pe.net>
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Subject: Re: Running shutdown from a cron job 
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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:25:11 MST, Dan Mahoney wrote:

> Unfortunately, when I tried adding a line like
>    0 0 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now
> to root's crontab, the shutdown never happens.
> I assume I'm overlooking something pretty 
> basic here.  Is there some valid reason why
> I can't run shutdown or reboot from a cron job?

Yes. Like you said, the machine's locking up. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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