Alex Birchall wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to schedule a reboot of my Ubuntu server. > > When I type sudo crontab -l at the prompt, the following is displayed: > > #m h dom mon dow command > 40 12 * * 0-7 eprints reboot > > As I understand it, this should mean that at 40 minutes past 12 each day > the user eprints will issue the command reboot. > > The problem is, nothing appears to be happening. > I would assume it's a permissions issue. As far as I'm aware to use the reboot command the user has to be root.
Running the command reboot from a terminal as a normal user comes back with: reboot: Need to be root Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
