Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:42:10 -0500 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: fred@timogen.com, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I use cron to shutdown a machine Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.2.20020722003654.03e51550@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <031b01c231bb$dea90760$7d05a8c0@fred>
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At 01:10 PM 7/22/2002 -0700, fred@timogen.com wrote: >hi , > > > Can I use cron to shutdown a mahine? I don't see why not. > I had add the task to shutdown a machin in crontab, but It is not work. > Can u tell me why? Not unless you post the exact crontab entry back to the mailing list. What user is it running as? Is anything sent to the user via email, with diagnostic output that might help identify the problem? If so, post that as well. You might want to go over the crontab entry format as well. # man 5 crontab >Regards, >Fred Zhang -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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