hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Please be informed that I have an CentOS 5 server and I need it to be > automatically rebooted at pre-specified times . To this end , I tried > to set it as its crontab job as the followings : > #crontab -e > 30 15 * * * reboot > It got through but after the server first reboot the crontab job > disappeared . So I tried to set it in another way , as the followings : > set the cron list in /tmp/temp > add the following lines to /etc/rc.local : > crontab /tmp/temp > But still the crontab job will disappear after the server first reboot > . Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I make the > crontab job permanent on my CentOS server even after server reboot ? > Let me thank you in advance > crontab -e /should/ be editing the file /var/spool/cron/$USER and crond reads /var/spool/cron/* to decide what to do. do you have scripts that are wiping out these files on reboot? or is /var/spool on a transient (non-persistent) storage ?