Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please do me favor and let me know where I have to check for the scripts that may wipe out these files on reboot ? How can I check if /var/spool on transient storage ? Please be informed that I have two CentOS servers , one is running CentOS 5.0 and the other is CentOS5.2 . For the CentOS5.2 , the cron job does not disappear after server reboot but for the 5.0 one it does . Can you please let me know what is wrong here ? Thank you in advance On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:16 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > 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 ? > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091028/59233586/attachment-0005.html>