asterisk users - Apr 2005 - Advice sought on how to automatically and sa fely reboot * box

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mchapman2@carolina.rr.com [mailto:mchapman2@carolina.rr.com]
> I am trying to figure out a way to automatically shutdown and 
> reboot an * box safely on a set schedule. I have thought 
> about using a CRON job but I am a newbie when it comes to 
> setting up CRON jobs. I have googled for examples but I have 
> came up empty. Has anyone on the list setup anything similiar 
> to what I am wanting to do?
You might look here:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+automatic+daily+restart
Neither of the examples does exactly what you want, but you could probably
adapt them.

In /etc/crontab:

0 2 * * * reboot

Runs the reboot command every morning at 2 AM. Works for me. 

If you are using a RedHat / Fedora box and you have cron running at startup
as a service your crontab entries should be running as root, so it should
work fine. 

cron is super bitchy about extraneous <cr> and <lf> 's in the
file, so make
sure you delete any whitespace after your entry. 

hth

-----Original Message-----
From: mchapman2@carolina.rr.com [mailto:mchapman2@carolina.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:11 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Advice sought on how to automatically and
safely reboot * box


Hi-

I am trying to figure out a way to automatically shutdown and reboot an *
box safely on a set schedule. I have thought about using a CRON job but I am
a newbie when it comes to setting up CRON jobs. I have googled for examples
but I have came up empty. Has anyone on the list setup anything similiar to
what I am wanting to do?

I want to install an * box in a location where the people are not computer
savvy at all...and I want to try and keep my * box up and running without
stability problems for as long as possible. I have read it is recommended to
reboot the * box on a regular basis.

Thanks for any help with this..

Mike C.

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