Hi Lunetta,
I think Apple migrated away from crontab and inetd on 10.4 in favour of
launchd though crontabs can still be made to work.
for comparison, here is a launchd plist which accomplishes the shutdown
you want
to install it, copy the attached file into the directory
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
and give it the same access and user/group as the other plists there,
then it'll be read at each boot.
+ in terminal, type
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/daily_reboot.plist
to make launchd notice the new task
(The plist needs the AbandonProcessGroup and ExitTimeOut settings in
order that launchd doesn't interfere with the shutdown process when the
main shutdown forks and exits immediately - normally launchd would cull
child processes after 20 seconds)
Yours
Richard
----[ daily_reboot.plist ] ----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
<true/>
<key>ExitTimeOut</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>GroupName</key>
<string>wheel</string>
<key>Label</key>
<string>daily_reboot</string>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/sbin/shutdown</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/sbin/shutdown</string>
<string>-r</string>
<string>+10</string>
</array>
<key>ServiceDescription</key>
<string>Reboot the server periodically</string>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>30</integer>
</dict>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>root</string>
</dict>
</plist>
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 14:36 -0800, Lunetta, Laura wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> In 10.3, I used to have a crontab which restarted my servers every
> evening. However, something seems to have changed in 10.4—how can I
> have my servers restart on a regular basis in 10.4?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laura.
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