At 01:10 PM 7/22/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>hi ,
>
>
>  Can I use cron to shutdown a mahine?

I don't see why not.

>  I had add the task to shutdown a machin in crontab, but It is not work.
>  Can u tell me why?

Not unless you post the exact crontab entry back to the mailing list.  What 
user is it running as?  Is anything sent to the user via email, with 
diagnostic output that might help identify the problem?  If so, post that 
as well.

You might want to go over the crontab entry format as well.

# man 5 crontab

>Regards,
>Fred Zhang

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