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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It seems to me that you should log in as
root, then switch to the cron.monthly directory and create a file in that
directory with the statement</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>/sbin/shutdown –r now</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Then do a chmod +x on the file to make
sure it is executable.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org [mailto:whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mike Chapman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 14, 2005
10:50 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> whitebox-users@beau.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [WBEL-users] Cron Job
help </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mike</span></font></p>
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