crontab shutdown as (regular user or root su-) not working

[Antonio Olivares]

-----Original Message-----
From: roignac at gmail.com
Sent: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:32:03 +0200
To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: crontab shutdown as (regular user or root su-) not working

Hello Antonio,

Here is a thread with a related problem and ways to solve it: 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]

Try using "/sbin/poweroff" instead of "/usr/sbin/poweroff" - and check root mail (stored in /var/spool/mail/root) for debug information

Thanks,
  Vadim
-----Original Message-----

Vadim and all who responded,

As regular user, the system fails to shutdown, but I have a working shutdown crontab as root user!  The system does indeed shutdown, I used /sbin/poweroff command in case it is important.  Thanks for helping to straighten this cron shutdown issue.  

Best Regards,


Antonio

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