Cron has no environment set. Specifically, your $PATH is non-existant so it can't find shutdown. If you use 'which shutdown' to find the actual command, then add the path to it in your crontab entry, then all should work.
HOWEVER, you should never, ever use vi directly to create crontab entries: use crontab -e, which invokes vi, but then informs cron that it's got a new setup. hth, Steve On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:33:24 +1300 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having created a cron job (with vi, no less!) to shut down this machine > at 8pm each night I am not sure why it will not run. I have in root's > crontab: > > nine:/home/roger # crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.XXXXkg1smT installed on Wed Jan 3 11:50:29 2007) > # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie > Exp $) > 0 20 * * * shutdown -h -t secs 1 > > In webmin I see that the job is active and can successfully run it > manually from there, and can run shutdown from a command line. I am > missing something - why will it not run via cron? > > Cheers, > Roger
