Hello Antonio,<br><br>Here is a thread with a related problem and ways to solve it: <a href="http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/159976-cron-shutdown-fails.html">http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/159976-cron-shutdown-fails.html</a><br>
<br>Try using "/sbin/poweroff" instead of "/usr/sbin/poweroff" - and check root mail (stored in /var/spool/mail/root) for debug information<br><br>Thanks,<br> Vadim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/12 Antonio Olivares <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wingators@inbox.com" target="_blank">wingators@inbox.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear fellow testers & devs.,<br>
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I have a special crontab which shuts down the computers at a specific time, ie.,<br>
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30 15 * * 1-5 /usr/sbin/poweroff > /dev/null 2>&1<br>
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but the machine does not shutdown :(<br>
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I have tried the following but as su - and added the following crontab:<br>
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# min hour day-of-month month day-of-week command<br>
30 15 * * 1-5 /sbin/init 0 > /dev/null 2>&1<br>
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and the machine does not shutdown :( either.<br>
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How can I make my machines shutdown automagically at 3:30 every weekday (1-5)?<br>
Does the new startup system interfere with basic shutdown of machines?<br>
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Also on some machines, I see poweroff as<br>
/usr/bin/poweroff<br>
and on others<br>
/usr/sbin/poweroff<br>
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Is the command different on different systems?<br>
It used to be the same before.<br>
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And to shutdown the machine from menu, I get prompted for root password. How can I eliminate that hassle? Running Gnome desktop btw in case it is important.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
<br>
Antonio<br>
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