Monthly reboot script

[smokingranger99]

Hi

Does anyone have any idea on how to set up crontab to run the reboot command on the first monday of every month. OR any script that can be put in cron.

Thanks

 

[DukeSSD]

Are you sure you are askng the right question here?
Why do you think you need to reboot once a month?
If you think you need to reboot for some reason, what it that reason?
Why not reboot only when you apply fixes or do maintenance?
If, for instance, you find the system starts slowing down after a few weeks why not fix the problem rather than rebooting.

 

[columb]

Firstly I'd agree with DukeSSD, you ought to be looking at why you need to reboot rather than how to do it but, if the following script run every Monday will do what you want

#!/bin/ksh
[[ $(date +%d) -le 7 ]] && shutdown -Fr #date +%d returns day of the month

The crontab entry should looklike (This example runs at 4am)

0 4 * * 1 /usr/local/bin/reboot.ksh

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Columb Healy

 

[smokingranger99]

Thanks columb.Appreciate the script.

Dukessd I totally understand what you are talking about. But its the vendors policy to have a monthly backup and reboot. So just going along with their policy.

Thanks

 

[mrn]

!! It's the vendors policy? Since when did vendors make policy? Oh yes when there code has memory leaks and it saves them from fixing it..... ;-)



Mike

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