Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:14:23 -0700 From: fred@timogen.com To: "Jimmy Olgeni" <olgeni@uli.it> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I use cron to shutdown a machine Message-ID: <05dc01c2326c$6a6c1480$7d05a8c0@fred> References: <20020722171843.W40235-100000@dev1.localdomain.net>
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Hi Jimmy,
Thanks very much.
I do a test in my linux machine, the absolute path of the shutdown
commands(/sbin/shutdown) is used in cron, so it works.
Regards,
Fred Zhang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Olgeni" <olgeni@uli.it>
To: <fred@timogen.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Can I use cron to shutdown a machine
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 fred@timogen.com wrote:
>
> > Can I use cron to shutdown a mahine?
> > I had add the task to shutdown a machin in crontab, but It is not work.
> > Can u tell me why?
>
> Did you use the full path for the command? Maybe it doesn't find
> shutdown in the default cron path. You may try with "/sbin/shutdown".
> Are you using /etc/crontab or the root user crontab? /etc/crontab also
> wants a "who" column :)
>
> --
> jimmy
>
>
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