System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

Post by M6NBP »

Hi.

Can someone make a command line to add to System Corn to reboot Pi-Star at 3am ?

Would want this to happen every day at 3am

Hope someone can help.

Many thanks

Norman
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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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Firstly you don't want to select 3am because this is the time that the overnight updates are run!

Under the expert tab you will see one titled System Cron, go into that and add to the end of the list

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15  4 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now >/dev/null 2>&1
This will reboot the pi at 04:15am every day!

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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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I just tried

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3 17 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now >/dev/null 2>&1
It did not reboot at 17.03hrs

Any help welcome
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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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Ok I thought by specifying the full syntax would have worked! So try...

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3 17 * * * root reboot >/dev/null 2>&1
See how you go!

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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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Also tried this and it did not work

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22 17	* * *   root	/usr/local/sbin/shutdown -r now >/dev/null 2>&1
Have also restarted Pi-Star when made any changes to make sure the new setting will be read.

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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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Ok you can pipe the output of the command to a text file with...

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40 17	* * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now > /home/pi-star/cron_output.txt
Just make sure you have the drive set to rw access! Otherwise it cannot write the file...

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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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Just looked in /usr/local/sbin/ and can not see a shutdown command.
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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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Scratch trying to pipe the output cause the pi essentially is to fast on the shutdown!

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15 3 	* * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now >/dev/null 2>&1
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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

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If you change to the root user and just try...

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sudo - s
/sbin/shutdown -r now
This should cause the pi to reboot! (I've just tested it and it works)

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15 3 * * * root  	/sbin/shutdown -r now >/dev/null 2>&1
So this "should" work! Image

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Re: System Corn Reboot Pi-Star

Post by M6NBP »

This worked

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5 18 * * * root reboot >/dev/null 2>&1
But only when I moved the code to the top of the list

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So if I do

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15 4 * * * root reboot >/dev/null 2>&1
That will reboot at 04.15am every day.

Thank you so much for all your help

Norman M6NBP
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