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What happens if shutdown command kills my unison cron job?
I have an Arch linux box at home that I power off quite frequently (the power supply is noisy and it annoys my girlfriend...!).
The box has a number of cron jobs running the unison utility, designed ...
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What permissions do I need to give my user to run "shutdown -r 5" command from cron?
I’m have a bash script that I run in /etc/crontab on Linux
$ uname -a
Linux mymachine.com 3.4.76-65.111.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 14 21:06:49 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The bash ...
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system-wide crontab vs. user crontab to shutdown pc
I'm trying to shutdwon my pc at 2 am once a week.
If I use the user crontab of root (sudo crontab -e)
30 2 * * 3 shutdown -h now
the shutdown will not be performed.
However, if I place the same ...
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