[WBEL-users] Cron Job help

[Michael St. Laurent]

Ermmm... shouldn't that be "0 4 1 * * /sbin/reboot"?  Otherwise it's going
to try to reboot every minute for an hour...
 
 

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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation 

-----Original Message-----
From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org
[mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Epps, Aaron M.
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:05 AM
To: mchapman2 at carolina.rr.com; whitebox-users at beau.org
Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] Cron Job help


I believe this cron entry would reboot your box on the 1st of every month at
4am
 
* 4 1 * * /sbin/reboot 
 
1.  Open a terminal
2.  Type "su" and enter the super user's/root's password when prompted
3.  Type "crontab -e"
4.  Press "i" to enter INSERT mode
5.  Type "* 4 1 * * * /sbin/reboot"
6.  Press "Esc"
7.  Press ":wq" and then hit Enter.
8.  Ensure that the cron daemon is set to run by typing "chkconfig --list
crond" and pressing enter.
9.  You're probably running at either runlevel 3 or 5, make sure you see
"3:on" and "5:on"
10.  Let me know if you need any help. 
 
http://www.taskghost.com/extended_cron_syntax.htm
<http://www.taskghost.com/extended_cron_syntax.htm> 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Chapman [mailto:mchapman2 at carolina.rr.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:50 PM
To: whitebox-users at beau.org
Subject: [WBEL-users] Cron Job help 


Hi-
 
Would someone be willing to assist me with setting up a Cron job that would
reboot my box on a monthly schedule? I have Googled for help and found
examples but I am perplexed with the syntax. I tried to use Webmin to do
this but could not ( each time I would try to run the job I was informed I
needed to run the job as a superuser...). Newbie instructions would be
greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks,
 
Mike

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