Re: need help on using crontab

[Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com>]

2014-02-19 6:26 GMT+01:00 Long Wind <longwind2009@gmail.com>:

I want to shutdown at some time,
so I create a file named cmd with a line below:

3 5  * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now

I run the command : " crontab cmd"

??

 

but it doesn't shutdown
Why?

First of all, is cron running?

Have a `grep for CRON syslog`