Hi, Can you try:
systemctl poweroff instead of /usr/bin/poweroff and see if that works? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:55:58 -0800 Antonio Olivares <wingat...@inbox.com> wrote: > Dear folks, > > I had a crontab entry to shutdown machine for a while. It had > > 30 16 * * 1-5 /usr/sbin/poweroff > 2&>1 /dev/null > > and machine shutdown every weekday (mon-fri) at 4:30 pm. But I don't > remember which fedora 19/20 the crontab entry (did not work as regular user > but I had to use it as root user) now it seems to work by command line > > $ /usr/sbin/poweroff > > powers off machine. But if I leave the same command in crontab entry > it(machine) does not poweroff. What could be preventing the machine from > powering off? What should I try? I know that I can become superuser and add > a crontab as superuser(root) and machine will shutdown, but how can I do it > without being root? It used to work before via crontab, it did not 2 or > three releases ago, now it seems to work from terminal, but not from crontab. > Any ideas. Running Fedora 22 on machine in question. > > Best Regards, > > > Antonio A. Olivares > > ____________________________________________________________ > FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and > family! > Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ TRY FREE IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if5 Capture screenshots, upload images, edit and send them to your friends through IMs, post on Twitter®, Facebook®, MySpace™, LinkedIn® – FAST! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
