[CentOS] Problem with crontab

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Wed Jul 5 16:20:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 at 12:11pm, Jose Miguel Perez wrote

> Crontab -e
>
> Add , the following line .
>
> 00 23 * * * reboot
>
> :wq
>
> , bot this process not work , who about that ?

AFAIK, only the console can use 'reboot' or 'poweroff'.  Try putting 
'/sbin/shutdown -r now' in root's crontab.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University



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