cron restart in fedora 11
 

Hello,

I am trying to schedule a restart every day at 16:00.
some say that I should edit the /etc/crontab file, while others say that I should use the crontab -e command to specify a cron job....

I don't know the difference, what I know is that both did not work with me...

However, I'll list my small script along with the result of ( crontab -l ) and the logs in /var/log/cron...

The script:(It's location /etc/cron.me/restart)

So why doesn't this work?
I've taken all precautions that I know:
-chmod 755 /etc/cron.me/restart
-The shutdown command can be executed by root user only so I checked the group and user owners of /etc/cron.me and /etc/cron.me/restart ... and they are set to root.
- I restart the crond service and reload it.
- I executed the script : /etc/cron.me/restart and it restarted my comp. but it doesn't do the same using cron......!!!!!!

Thanks for ur help..

'cron' will understand a full path only :

/sbin/shutdown -r now


.....

this URL will be of help http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-9248

Thanks, that "full path order" solved my problem.