Using the shutdown command from a VT other than the console

From: Matthieu Gaillet (mg_at_evercomREMOVEME.be)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:24:18 +0200

Hello All,

I'm trying to cron a computer restart and I've put the command
"shutdown -y -i6" in the crontab file. I tried that for the crontab of user
root or for the user normally using the machine. Neither of the two are
working : I keep getting the message

# mail
>From LOGIN Thu Oct 14 23:58 GMT 2004

/etc/shutdown: You must be logged onto the console (/dev/console) and be
           using virtual terminal 0 in order to shut the system down.

*************************************************
Cron: The previous message is the standard output
      and standard error of your cron command:

        /etc/shutdown -y -i6

I don't know what to let the shutdown command working from another VT... Has
anyone an idea ?

the uname command returns the following

ucg:2_14/usr/ucg>uname -a
ucg ucg 3.2 2 i386

It is an old Interactive Unix (SunSoft, 1990)

Thanks !

Matt

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