crontab and reboot

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 14:36 +0000, Oliver Marshall wrote:
> Is there another way to schedule commands? This NAS box overwrites the
> crontab entries on each reboot, so scheduling a reboot works only
> once, then the new crontab entries get removed.
> 
Run  startup script that uses at to schedule a reboot. Call this script
reboot_later and put it in your startup sequence:

   #!/bin/sh
   /root/reboot_in_four_hours &

Call this script reboot_in_four_hours and put it in /root

   #!/bin/sh
   sleep 14400
   reboot

Alternatively, call this script reboot_later and put it in your startup
sequence:

   #!/bin/sh
   echo reboot | at now + 4 hours 

Note: All the above is totally untested!

Regards, K.

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