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From: roig...@gmail.com
Sent: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:32:03 +0200
To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: crontab shutdown as (regular user or root su-) not working
Hello Antonio,
Here is a thread with a related problem and ways to solve it:
http
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:57:17 +0100
Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2012-11-13, 09:35 GMT, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > This is all I use in my crontab:
> > 00 01 * * * poweroff
>
> Relying on $PATH being what you expect it to be in crontab is
> highly dangerous (see crontab(5) on details) ... I generally don’
On 2012-11-13, 09:35 GMT, Frank Murphy wrote:
> This is all I use in my crontab:
> 00 01 * * * poweroff
Relying on $PATH being what you expect it to be in crontab is highly
dangerous (see crontab(5) on details) ... I generally don’t trust $PATH
I don’t see in crontab itself, or in this case, jus
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:42:58 -0800
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow testers & devs.,
>
> I have a special crontab which shuts down the computers at a
> specific time, ie.,
>
> 30 15 * * 1-5 /usr/sbin/poweroff > /dev/null 2>&1
>
This is all I use in my crontab:
00 01 * * * poweroff
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Hello Antonio,
Here is a thread with a related problem and ways to solve it:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/159976-cron-shutdown-fails.html
Try using "/sbin/poweroff" instead of "/usr/sbin/poweroff" - and check root
mail (stored in /var/spool/mail/root) for debug informatio
