Hi Jimmy,
Thanks very much.
I do a test in my linux machine, the absolute path of the shutdown
commands(/sbin/shutdown) is used in cron, so it works.
Regards,
Fred Zhang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Olgeni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Can I use cron to shutdown a machine
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Can I use cron to shutdown a mahine?
> > I had add the task to shutdown a machin in crontab, but It is not work.
> > Can u tell me why?
>
> Did you use the full path for the command? Maybe it doesn't find
> shutdown in the default cron path. You may try with "/sbin/shutdown".
> Are you using /etc/crontab or the root user crontab? /etc/crontab also
> wants a "who" column :)
>
> --
> jimmy
>
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