Reboot automacticly at midnight

[lpl0an]

Hi,
I'm trying to make my RPi reboot everyday at midnight. I set a crontab :

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0 0 * * * reboot

but I looked in the syslog file, and it doesn't reboot apparently. Do you have any ideas why ?
Thank you for your answers.

[rpdom]

Try putting in the full path of the reboot command: /sbin/reboot

Also, you are puttin this in the root crontab, aren't you? The pi user doesn't have permission to use the reboot command unless with sudo.

[lpl0an]

How do I know I'm on root crontab ? I'm root whan I type :

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crontab -e

[joan]

As the previous poster said, change reboot to /sbin/reboot in your crontab. Crontab needs the full path to commands.

[ant_thomas]

How do I know I'm on root crontab ? I'm root whan I type :

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crontab -e

You should be in the correct crontab but you can access the root crontab by typing

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sudo crontab -e

There is a root crontab (accessed by using sudo) and user crontabs.

[lpl0an]

It works perfectly !

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sudo crontab -e

then edit the file adding the line :

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0 0 * * * /sbin/reboot

Thanks !