[ale] Cron for re-boot

[Geoffrey]

How did you add the entries to the cron file?  Did you edit it by hand, 
or use 'crontab -e?'  If you edit it by hand, you have to 'tell cron' to 
reread the crontab file.  I always use crontab -e which notifies cron 
for you.  What we used to do is edit the file, kill and restart cron.

By the way, I successfully rebooted my box here with:

25 8 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now > /tmp/reboot.out 2>/tmp/reboot.err

No quotes, just like this.

This is a P166, running RH 7.2

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I think it's croaking on the flags to shutdown. Try putting it all in
> quotes. Or, make a shell script that calls the command and call that
> from cron.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 07:17, sangell at nan.net wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to set a cron job to reboot a server on the 15th of each month
>>at 3:00am. I have tried:
>>
>>* * 15 * * exec /sbin/shutdown -r now
>>and
>>* * 15 * * /sbin/shutdown -r now
>>and
>>* * 15 * * shutdown -r now
>>
>>all in /var/spool/cron/root
>>
>>None work. I even tried using webmin to add the job but no success. Now the
>>funny thing is in while in webmin, I click "Run Now"  and the system
>>reboots with the "exec /sbin/shutdown -r now" but no matter how I set the
>>time for the job to run it will not restart via cron. I do have 3 other
>>jobs that run every night which are successful. I am at a loss. Any ideas?
>>
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