QUESTION Scheduled Reboot on IncrediblePBX 13-13 Raspberry Pi

[mattburris]

So I'd like my pbx to restart every night at 4am by calling /usr/local/sbin/reboot via cron

As a test, I've set it up to reboot at 1:49pm.

I use crontab to add the following line:

49 13 * * * /bin/bash /usr/local/sbin/reboot

at 1:49pm nothing happens.

Any pointers?

 

[lrosenman]

what user is running that cronjob?

You need it to be root, or at least sudo without password.

 

[mattburris]

I am ssh'd into the RPi as root when I run 'crontab -e'

Is there a way to check if any errors or logs are created when the job should run?

 

[lrosenman]

It should mail root with any output.

that said, check /var/log/cron for messages as well.

 

[kyle95wm]

That cronjob doesn't look right. Try this one:

49 13 * * * root reboot

This will run a cronjob as root and will issue the reboot command. If that doesn't work. let me know.

 

[lrosenman]

If that's in /etc/crontab that's correct, if it's in crontab -e (root's /var/spool/cron/tabs/root) his is correct
and I just noticed that the reboot command is full path'd to /usr/local/sbin/reboot which is wrong.

it's in /sbin/reboot..

so make the crontab entry:
49 13 * * * /sbin/reboot

as it's NOT a shell script....

 

[mattburris]

I believe when I execute the 'reboot' command normally, is it running the file here: /usr/local/sbin/reboot?
It's content is

#!/bin/bash

fwconsole stop
/etc/init.d/mysql stop
/etc/init.d/apache2 stop
shutdown -r now

That particular file is the one I'd like to execute via cron to reboot the RPi.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that script should be used since it is gracefully shutting down Asterisk, mysql, and apache.

 

[kyle95wm]

Does "which reboot" return the path of the file you mentioned? If so, you should be able to execute the reboot command inside of cron.

 

[mattburris]

Does "which reboot" return the path of the file you mentioned? If so, you should be able to execute the reboot command inside of cron.

That works Kyle. Thanks!