cannot reboot from a script ran by root's crontab

[Jim Weeks]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, PsYxAkIaS (FreeBSD) wrote:

> $ cat /usr/sbin/checkre
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir /tmp/reboot
> reboot now

I would assume that crontab can't find "reboot", ie "sbin" isn't in your
path. (/sbin/reboot now)

> $ crontab -l
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/sbin/checkre >/dev/null 2>&1

This could be more easily written in this manner;

0-59/5  * * * * /usr/sbin/checkre >/dev/null 2>&1

BTW, ">/dev/null" is the reason you aren't seeing the "not found error".

Hope this helps,
--
Jim