nixCraft

Hi everyone,

On Windows platform, I can run schedule task for shut down my windows machine. How about on linux? I am trying to schedule a task to shutdown SuSe10 everyday at 1:00AM in the morning. How can I do that? Here is what I did, but it never works.

I run the command "crontab -e" and then I enter this: 0 01 * * * shutdown -h now

Does anyone know how to do it? Please let me know. I really apprecaite that.

Your command is correct, only use full path to shutdown command. at a shell prompt type
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You're 100% right. Thank you so much. It's working like a dream. By the way, when I do the schedule to print out the log file on my system. Say, I want to print out the file in /var/log/messages.

# which lpr
/usr/bin/lpr

In the crontab file, I put:
0 18 * * * /usr/bin/lpr /var/log/messages

It should print out the log file(message at 6PM everyday. However, it doesn't. I don't know why. At the command when I run
# /usr/bin/lpr /var/log/messages
It prints out fine. But I doesn't print in the crontab file. Do you know why? I really appreciate that.