Sorry for the delay...were you able to run the shutdown.  I am trying to 
automate the shut down in my application but, "shutdown" need to be run 
from root.

On Friday, October 25, 2013 at 8:04:29 PM UTC-5, David Hirst wrote:
>
> I am attempting to bring the Beaglebone down cleanly in the event of a 
> power outage, to do this I am monitoring the AC input in a python script 
> which when the AC power is lost calls a shutdown. If I call this from the 
> cli with no AC but with USB the system shuts down correctly.
> If I call this from a cron job the python script executes but the shutdown 
> does not happen. I try to redirect any output to a file but no output is 
> seen, I do see the file update time change each time the cron job fires but 
> as before no shutdown
>
> Any ideas ?
>

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