Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 feb 14, 07:56:38, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > > > I find that shutdown can take a time argument > > so why do I bother with cron > > > > Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway! > > Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdow

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-19 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I find that shutdown can take a time argument > so why do I bother with cron > > Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway! Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdown or reboot the machine on some definable interval without us

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-19 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:20:50AM +, Dom wrote: > From the original post, Long Wind seems to have used the original > method of creating crontabs: > > crontab > > The usual sequence (on the old Unix systems I used to admin) was: > > crontab -l > mycronfile > vi mycronfile (to edit) > cron

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-19 Thread Long Wind
On 2/19/14, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >> > > ?? > > > > > First of all, is cron running? > Have a `grep for CRON syslog` > I find that shutdown can take a time argument so why do I bother with cron Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-19 Thread Dom
On 19/02/14 07:13, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:56:50AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I want to shutdown at 5:03 I check with crontab -l it seems OK Depending on how you created the file the format may or may not be okay. Did you create the file in /etc/cron.d, or as a user with 'cro

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:56:50AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I want to shutdown at 5:03 > I check with crontab -l > it seems OK Depending on how you created the file the format may or may not be okay. Did you create the file in /etc/cron.d, or as a user with 'crontab -e'? Given that you say 'cron

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-19 6:26 GMT+01:00 Long Wind : > I want to shutdown at some time, > so I create a file named cmd with a line below: > > 3 5 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now > > I run the command : " crontab cmd" > ?? > > but it doesn't shutdown > Why? First of all, is cron running? Have a `grep for C

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-18 Thread Long Wind
On 2/19/14, Tom Furie wrote: > > Where did you create the file? Are you expecting the machine to shutdown > when you invoke 'crontab cmd'? > > Cheers, > Tom > > -- I want to shutdown at 5:03 I check with crontab -l it seems OK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: need help on using crontab

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:26:38AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I want to shutdown at some time, > so I create a file named cmd with a line below: > > 3 5 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now > > I run the command : " crontab cmd" > > but it doesn't shutdown > Why? Where did you create the file? Are

need help on using crontab

2014-02-18 Thread Long Wind
I want to shutdown at some time, so I create a file named cmd with a line below: 3 5 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now I run the command : " crontab cmd" but it doesn't shutdown Why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co