On Jo, 20 feb 14, 07:56:38, Tom Furie wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
I find that shutdown can take a time argument
so why do I bother with cron
Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway!
Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdown or reboot
On 19/02/14 07:13, Tom Furie wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:56:50AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
I want to shutdown at 5:03
I check with crontab -l
it seems OK
Depending on how you created the file the format may or may not be okay.
Did you create the file in /etc/cron.d, or as a user with
On 2/19/14, Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote:
??
First of all, is cron running?
Have a `grep for CRON syslog`
I find that shutdown can take a time argument
so why do I bother with cron
Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway!
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:20:50AM +, Dom wrote:
From the original post, Long Wind seems to have used the original
method of creating crontabs:
crontab name of file to use as new crontab
The usual sequence (on the old Unix systems I used to admin) was:
crontab -l mycronfile
vi
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
I find that shutdown can take a time argument
so why do I bother with cron
Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway!
Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdown or reboot the
machine on some definable interval without
I want to shutdown at some time,
so I create a file named cmd with a line below:
3 5 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now
I run the command : crontab cmd
but it doesn't shutdown
Why?
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:26:38AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
I want to shutdown at some time,
so I create a file named cmd with a line below:
3 5 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now
I run the command : crontab cmd
but it doesn't shutdown
Why?
Where did you create the file? Are you
On 2/19/14, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
Where did you create the file? Are you expecting the machine to shutdown
when you invoke 'crontab cmd'?
Cheers,
Tom
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I want to shutdown at 5:03
I check with crontab -l
it seems OK
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2014-02-19 6:26 GMT+01:00 Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com:
I want to shutdown at some time,
so I create a file named cmd with a line below:
3 5 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now
I run the command : crontab cmd
??
but it doesn't shutdown
Why?
First of all, is cron running?
Have a
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:56:50AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
I want to shutdown at 5:03
I check with crontab -l
it seems OK
Depending on how you created the file the format may or may not be okay.
Did you create the file in /etc/cron.d, or as a user with 'crontab -e'?
Given that you say
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