Hi, Can you try: systemctl poweroff instead of /usr/bin/poweroff and see if that works? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:55:58 -0800 Antonio Olivares <wingators(a)inbox.com&gt; wrote: -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ TRY FREE IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if5 Capture screenshots, upload images, edit and send them to your friends through IMs, post on Twitter®, Facebook®, MySpace™, LinkedIn® – FAST!

Ranjan, Tried it and it does not poweroff machine via crontab. However, from $ systemctl poweroff does poweroff machine. What could be preventing it from shutting down. I will try the -f option suggested also, then report back. Best Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

On 09/16/2015 02:06 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I'm pretty sure this is caused by the fact that crontab entries don't have a console associated with them and systemctl wants to spit stuff out to stdout. You could try redirecting stdout and stderr in your cron entry: systemctl poweroff >/dev/null 2>&1 or possibly launch systemctl in a screen session: screen -S "sysshutdown" -d -m systemctl poweroff The first MAY work (dunno if systemctl is that picky). The second would run it in a screen session so it would have a stdin, stdout and stderr. That is assuming you have screen installed (and why wouldn't you?). If it failed you could "screen -r" and see what error systemctl is spitting out. This is just a guess. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks(a)alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Ranjan, Rick and Ed Thank you for your input. I used the -f option with [olivares@localhost ~]$ crontab -l # min hour day-of-month month day-of-week command # 0-59 0-23 1-31 1-12 0-6 0=sun 1=mon 43 09 * * 1-5 ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 33 10 * * 1-5 ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 23 11 * * 1-5 ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 13 12 * * 1-5 ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 53 13 * * 1-5 ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 43 14 * * 1-5 ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 33 15 * * 1-5 ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 33 16 * * 1-5 ~/.lalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 #10 17 * * 1-5 /usr/sbin/poweroff >/dev/null 2>&1 #20 17 * * 1-5 systemctl poweroff -f >/dev/null 2>&1 [olivares@localhost ~]$ To test the shutdown I used 10 17 * * 1-5 /usr/sbin/poweroff -f >/dev/null 2>&1 and with 20 17 * * 1-5 systemctl poweroff -f >/dev/null 2>&1 and none of these worked. I gave up and set this up as root and machine does shutdown. I wonder where Fedora changed things, it just worked TM, but now it does not. From your message Ed, I get that I would need to type a password, but if I issue the command(s) from terminal the machine shuts down and does not prompt me for anything. I was thinking also about /etc/cron.deny but one can do pretty much anything most were working except shutdown :( I created a file ~/.shutdown with the following: [olivares@localhost ~]$ cat .shutdown #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/poweroff -f >/dev/null 2>&1 #systemctl poweroff -f >/dev/null 2>&1 [olivares@localhost ~]$ and called it within crontab, but it also failed to shutdown the machine. [olivares@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) [olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 4.1.6-201.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 4 17:49:24 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [olivares@localhost ~]$ The permanent solution is to use root: [olivares@localhost ~]$ su - Password: [root@localhost ~]# crontab -l 58 21 * * 1-5 /sbin/poweroff > /dev/null 2>&1 [root@localhost ~]# and machine shuts down automagically at 9:58 pm at night :) Best Regards, Antonio A. Olivares ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium