Reboot script not working

[wang1zhen]

Hi, this could be some sort of newbie question, but I have no idea why it did not work.

I've set up a reboot script for my truenas, as you can see it should reboot my machine every day at 3:00 am:

when I first set it, everything's working fine, but sometimes it fails, and for days it won't reboot until I do it manually.

What's more, if I click the 'RUN NOW' in webUI, which should run the script, my truenas does not reboot; while if I type `reboot now` in the Terminal, it does.

I guess there might be some process stuck? This is not quite critical but rather annoying, would be glad if someone could help me out. Thanks in advance!

 

[wang1zhen]

See the uptime of my machine, it is supposed to be rebooted every day.

 

[sretalla]

You see that you typed "shutdown" not reboot, right?

 

[wang1zhen]

You see that you typed "shutdown" not reboot, right?

I guess "shutdown -r" is equal to "reboot" right?

 

[sretalla]

I guess "shutdown -r" is equal to "reboot" right?

I type `reboot now` in the Terminal, it does.

You appear to be giving evidence that there's a different way that works... why aren't you using it?

 

[wang1zhen]

You appear to be giving evidence that there's a different way that works... why aren't you using it?

Sorry for the misunderstanding, actually I tried `shutdown -r now` in the terminal and it worked. So I do not think it should be a problem of the `shutdown` or `reboot` command.

 

[Jailer]

Why are you rebooting your server every day? You're losing the benefit of ZFS caching by doing so.

 

[wang1zhen]

Why are you rebooting your server every day? You're losing the benefit of ZFS caching by doing so.

Yeah, I am aware of that, yet I simply do not trust my devices that much, thus I would rather reboot them every day.

 

[wang1zhen]

Can anyone help or tell me what i could do to provide more info about this rebooting issue?

 

[Samuel Tai]

Typically, this is a path error. For cron jobs, it's good practice to specify the full path of the command: /sbin/reboot or /sbin/shutdown.

 

[Jailer]

Can anyone help or tell me what i could do to provide more info about this rebooting issue?

Yeah, stop doing it.

 

[wang1zhen]

Typically, this is a path error. For cron jobs, it's good practice to specify the full path of the command: /sbin/reboot or /sbin/shutdown.

Thank you, I'll try.