Automatic Nightly reboot

locke · 02-10-2002, 01:57 PM

I have a problem with my linux box that it freezes if left on for a could days so i have just been rebooting it every night or 2 and have no problems. I have been unable to fix the freezing problem but since a reboot makes everything fine again is there anyway to schedule the machine to reboot everyday at say 3am?

Thanks in advance!

acid_kewpie · 02-10-2002, 02:06 PM

assuming you've got cron running, just add an entry to /etc/crontab, or root's personal crontab if you'd rather.

for /etc/crontab
00 3 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -r

for user crontab (crontab -e)
oo 3 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r