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From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
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Subject: Re: cannot reboot from a script ran by root's crontab
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:10:39PM +0300, PsYxAkIaS (FreeBSD) wrote:
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/sbin/checkre >/dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * /usr/sbin/checkre >/dev/null 2>&1

Saves a bit of typing :)

Something like:

*/5    *   *   *   *   root    /sbin/reboot

in /etc/crontab should work.

Regards,
Jez