Thank you. Sorry, I have egg on my face. On 02/23/2014 08:22 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > 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. >