this happened to me, shutdown is actually a call to busybox define on /sbin/ and those not work on cron. You have to call the real command which is 'busybox shutdown'(not sure i dont have th BB with me right now), you call see the command doing 'ls -l /sbin/'.
Hope this helps Pedro On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am attempting to bring the Beaglebone down cleanly in the event of a > power outage, to do this I am monitoring the AC input in a python script > which when the AC power is lost calls a shutdown. If I call this from the > cli with no AC but with USB the system shuts down correctly. > If I call this from a cron job the python script executes but the shutdown > does not happen. I try to redirect any output to a file but no output is > seen, I do see the file update time change each time the cron job fires but > as before no shutdown > > Any ideas ? > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
