> Ok, I see cron.daily, cron.weekly, etc. How do I schedule for the machine
> to shutdown and perform a reboot once a day? Do I put a script in
> cron.daily? I see one there (or in one of them) so I'll copy the format.
> Just add 'shutdown -r now' I presume? I have no Xwindows on this system
> (for space reasons).
Log in as root, type crontab -e, and add:
01 03 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now
This will shutdown the computer at 1 minute past the hour of 3:00 am
every day of every week of every month.
Good Luck!!
Brian.
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