On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:20:06AM -0600, Joseph Hesse wrote: > I have a root cron job that powers down my server every day at 1am and > 6pm. The output of '# crontab -l' is shown below. > > * 1,18 * * * poweroff Nope. That says "every minute of hours 1 and 18". So 0100, 0101, 0102, 0103 etc etc You want it to read "0 1,18 * * * poweroff" > Apparently a cron job that executed correctly at 6pm was executing > minutes past 6pm when the server was restarted. This is totally > unexpected behavior. Totally expected. > Is there a fix for this behavior? Yes, user error; fix the cron job. -- rgds Stephen