Crontab, CronniX and sudo

Hi All,

I'm using CronniX to try to set up a restart of the system on a
schedule (there's a long story as to why I'm not using the Energy Saver
prefs to shutdown/startup). I'm executing:

sudo shutdown -r now

It works fine form the command line but not from the crontab. I think
it's because I need to sudo to get shutdown to work and it's prompting
for a password. So, is there a way to embed the password in the
command? Or another way to somehow get shutdown to run when no logged
in as root?

Or, some other command that I could run from the command line that'll
force a restart of the system? I'm not too picky, I just want it to
reboot on a schedule.

Thanks,

Jeff

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