shutdown crontab

[Rok Škufca]

Hi,

now i have a problem with automatic shutdown, i get the command to the
crontab, but it not work.

crontab -e
00 18 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now

this must shutdown webconverger at 18pm, but not work?

BR, Rok

[Kai Hendry]

Please boot into debug mode.

Can you tell me what date says? It should in UTC and hence you need to
convert your time.

Also tell me the output of cat /etc/crontab

Thanks,

[Guttorm Flatabø]

There is also a boot option for time zone AFAIK.

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[Kai Hendry]

Also output from:

grep -i cron /var/log/syslog

Can be useful in debugging syntax errors in the crontab.

[Kai Hendry]

2012/1/27 Guttorm Flatabø <po...@guttormflatabo.com>:

> There is also a boot option for time zone AFAIK.

Quite right. :)

I just tried appending timezone=Asia/Tokyo to the boot cmdline and it worked.

ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/zone.tab is the authoritative TZ list

Oh btw, instead of `shutdown -h now` you an use `halt`

00 23 * * * root halt

Next this info should be on the wiki somewhere.

[Rok Škufca]

date
Fri Jan 27 08:13:43 UTC 2012

cat /etc/crontab
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --
report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --
report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --
report /etc/cron.monthly )
#
00 18 * * * root /sbin/sgutdown -h now


grep -i cron /var/log/syslog
Jan 27 09:13:13 localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1319]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile
fd= 3)
Jan 27 09:13:13 localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1320]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork
ok)
Jan 27 09:13:13 localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1320]: (CRON) INFO (Running
@reboot jobs)
Jan 27 08:16:01 localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1320]: (*system*) RELOAD (/
etc/crontab)
Jan 27 08:17:01 localhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[1600]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)


tnx

[Steve Robson]

Rok �kufca wrote:

> 00 18 * * * root /sbin/sgutdown -h now

There's your error. It should read "shutdown".

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Regards,
Steve

[Rok Škufca]

That works for me:

00 22 * * * root halt

i have set the timezone=Europe/Ljubljana, and the time is ok.

In the crontab is set to shutdown at 22:00, but system shutdown 1 hour
later at 23:00?

Regards,
Rok

On Jan 27, 6:59 pm, Steve Robson <srob...@cadence.com> wrote: