crontab and reboot

[Tony Pursell]

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 11:35 +0000, Oliver Marshall wrote:
> Hi chaps
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> If I want to schedule a reboot every four hours, do i need to enter
> the command as;
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> 01 /4 * * * root shutdown now -r
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> 01 /4 * * * shutdown now -r
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> (note the lack of root).
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> I'm using the latter but it's not working. 
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> Olly
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It may be because it should be 

shutdown -r now

(man page specifies OPTIONS before TIME).

It must, of course, be run as root.

Tony

PS I know nothing about cron jobs.