On Tuesday 03 August 2004 07:00 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:38 am, Mark Rogers wrote: > >The machine > > will not be logged on as 'root' and my security limit is set pretty high > > (i.e. the reboot command needs to be looged in as 'root' before it > > executes). Anyone have any idea of how I should go about doing this? > > You can use a cron job for this and it doesn't have to be logged on to > execute. However, you should keep in mind that most things that would > cause your system to go south, lockups, out of memory, etc., will also > prevent the cron daemon from executing the reboot command. > > IOW, there is no substitute for an operator at the wheel.
I would also think that there is more of a chance of something going wrong on the reboot, like harddrake hanging the machine waiting for user input, or a bad fsck, than with just letting it run. You could use ssh to do a remote login to monitor the machine while you are away. A WIndows client like PuTTy is great for this. I always keep a mini-cd with PuTTy and the vnc client on it so I can log in to my box from any machine that has an Internet connection. -- /g
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