[LBo] cronjobs not working

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Ben wrote:

> Hi, everyone...
>
> I've been trying to set up a simple cronjob that reboots my server (Centos 
> 4.3) every morning at 4.  Here's what I've been entering as root:
>
> crontab -e
>
> 0 4 * * * shutdown -r now
>
> This, however, doesn't work.  I've tested it with other times and commands 
> but none of them seem to run.  I've made sure crond is running, crontab -l 
> shows my job, my syntax seems correct, and I've even put a blank line after 
> my crontab entry like I've read in places.  Am I missing something?

     Add the full path to the command, e.g. /usr/bin./shutdown.

     Better still, don't do it at all. What reason do you have to shut
     the machine down?

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