Hi, Is it possible to have my droplet/server restart daily at a certain time? Then once restarted, either have it login automatically or run a command to run an application automatically? The reason why I need to do this is because I have an application running and after some time it starts to lag, and until I restart the droplet, it will lag and lag.
The command I need my droplet to run after restarting is something like : sudo screen ./TS3MusicBot_runscript.sh -parameters -parameters -parameters
I’m not sure if I could run that command without having to SSH into my droplet.
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I was unable to get the crontab working too.
I run
crontab -e
using sudoHi, thank you for that post, I tried the first method, which is : crontab -e Then put
0 0 * * * reboot
at the end and thenAnd lastly
For some reason my system does not reboot at midnight. It also doesn’t runt he command when I reboot it myself. I use the command
sudo reboot now
but my system doesn’t actually turn off.You can use crontab for that. Log in as root and run crontab -e. Once inside the editor, add the following line:
This will reboot the server every day at midnight.
In order to then run a command after reboot, you can add another line to crontab like this:
In order for this to work under Debian/Ubuntu, you may have to run this command as root:
Another approach is to create a startup script in /etc/init.d (Debian/Ubuntu) with the following content:
In case you choose this approach, then remember to do the following: