From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 6:44:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C47C37B6AE for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 06:44:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14L4ed-000KcM-00; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:42:41 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14L4ft-000A4p-00; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:43:57 +0300 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:43:57 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Cc: skin@takeover.lion-access.net Subject: Re: reboot Message-ID: <20010123174357.A38604@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q , skin@takeover.lion-access.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Bart Pustjens" on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:35:52PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Bart Pustjens [20010123 17:29]: writing on the subject 'reboot' Bart> Bart> Hi! Bart> Bart> One of my FreeBSD machines is highly unstable and Bart> is co-located at an ISP. I don't have the time this Bart> week to fix the problems or upgrade the hardware so Bart> I want to add a cronjob with 'reboot' every 24 hours. Bart> Is it allowed (for the root user) to add /sbin/reboot Bart> as a cronjob ? Or are their other alternatives ? What is the need for a reboot. maybe you can just give a rogue process a HUP every 24 hours.... But i still "SUSPECT" /sbin/shutdown -r can still be done via cron. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. -William Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message