How to cron a shutdown -rF now
 

I have a server that I'm hoping to replace soon, but for now i have to reboot and e2fsck it every couple days to avoid general weirdness. Instead of doing it remotely in the early hours of the morning, is there a way to cron a "shutdown -rF now" to run a few times a week at a time of my choosing?

i dont know if its a simple as doing
00 12 * * 1,3,5 shutdown -rF now

or there's more to it or a better way.

I am not sure if there is a better way, but you may want to go to the full path:

00 12 * * 1,3,5 /sbin/shutdown -rF now

Let me know how it goes. And if others have a better way, I would like to hear it too :)

yeah, probably a good call using the full path. thanks. wonder if anyone else has a better way too.

1. if you're having to e2fsck every few days, I REALLY hope you've got backups; sounds like your disk(s) are very nearly dead.
2. to automate this, you'll probably need to edit http://linux.die.net/man/5/e2fsck.conf to force it to continue where it would normally stop and ask the user ... see eg '-y' http://linux.die.net/man/8/e2fsck

oh yeah, definitely have a backup. it's not that the file system get corrupt, but I think its more the controller card dying a slow death, so it does some weird stuff, and i just want to keep making sure the file system is in tact until it can be replaced. thanks Chris.