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Old 08-07-2004, 01:19 AM   #1
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Automatically Restart Server??


OK, here's the problem:

My slackware 9.1 server tends to loose consciousness every 4 - 10 days, and the only way to prevent this is to give it periodic reboots. Is there a simple way I can tell it to restart automatically after a certain period of time?

Also, I'm not sure that I have the cron job daemon running (if such a thing exists,) so how might I enable it? The reason I ask is because I'll be going away for two weeks and it needs to keep chugging during that time.

-thanks in advance
 
Old 08-07-2004, 03:04 AM   #2
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You should be able to use a cron job to restart the box.

But if it's an important server or anything along the lines why don't you try and narrow down the "consciousness" problem is there a process that needs to be stopped\started or do you have underlying hardware problems or even your power config is incorrect, having a machine restart itself can be usefull but also in my experience can lead to bigger problems (like the server not comming up).

But anyhow to create a cronjob using crontab do the following:

crontab -e #this will put you into a session with your default editor (vi \ nano)

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
MAILTO=(email address)

0 0 1,15 * * shutdown -r now # midnight on the 1st and the 15th of each month

save the file and your done,

Try this website (it has an autocrontab generator): http://htmlbasix.com/crontab.shtml

But it's a useful tool and you would probably want to read up on it:

http://kb.indiana.edu/data/afiz.html
 
Old 08-07-2004, 04:00 AM   #3
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thankyou!
 
Old 08-07-2004, 07:55 PM   #4
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Ok, it works with one problem:

* * * * * reboot > /dev/null

>>>makes it restart every minute. If I want to change that to every hour or two hours, what line would I edit?

-thanks again
 
Old 08-07-2004, 09:25 PM   #5
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the second one, so every hour you'd set the second field to 1,


The order is minutes hours days months weekdays commands

so

0 2 * * * /command

should do it i think
-Louis
 
  


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