[LBo] cronjobs not working

[Billy Pollifrone]

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Ben wrote:
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>> 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
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>     Add the full path to the command, e.g. /usr/bin./shutdown.
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>     Better still, don't do it at all. What reason do you have to shut
>     the machine down?
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Unless it's a laptop, I'd just leave it running. If you get to using
cron jobs regularly, it would probably be wise to redirect root's mail
to a real email account, so the results would be emailed to you.
Redirecting stderr is helpful too. Obviously, it makes no sense for a
shutdown command, but just thought I'd add that.

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