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 information Thanks, Vadim 2012/11/12 Antonio Olivares <wingat...@inbox.com> > 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 > > but the machine does not shutdown :( > > I have tried the following but as su - and added the following crontab: > > # min hour day-of-month month day-of-week command > 30 15 * * 1-5 /sbin/init 0 > /dev/null > 2>&1 > > and the machine does not shutdown :( either. > > How can I make my machines shutdown automagically at 3:30 every weekday > (1-5)? > Does the new startup system interfere with basic shutdown of machines? > > Also on some machines, I see poweroff as > /usr/bin/poweroff > and on others > /usr/sbin/poweroff > > Is the command different on different systems? > It used to be the same before. > > And to shutdown the machine from menu, I get prompted for root password. > How can I eliminate that hassle? Running Gnome desktop btw in case it is > important. > > Thanks, > > > Antonio > > ____________________________________________________________ > GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at > http://www.inbox.com/smileys > Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and > most webmails > > > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- Vadim Rutkovsky
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