vixie-cron issue

asankaan · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 58

Hi,

In my gentoo box, i have installed vixie-cron 4.1-r12.
I want to shutdown my pc daily in a specific time & I used cron job to get it done.
My Cron tab : 30 18 * * * /sbin/halt
But, above does not work.
But, When i use /sbin/reboot , it reboots the pc at the given time though /sbin/halt does not work.
Does anyone have any idea on this issue?

Thanks in advance.

olek · Apprentice Joined: 22 Oct 2011 Posts: 173

Try poweroff or shutdown now instead of halt.
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toralf · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: vixie-cron issue

asankaan · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 58