bash reboot command not found

Question

I am trying to execute a script on server. When I do crontab -l I get @reboot cd my_project_path; ./start.sh on terminal.

However when I do @reboot cd my_project_path; ./start.sh I get -bash: @reboot: command not found. How do I include reboot command in bash? Sorry if this is a very basic question, but I am not master in bash.

Answer 1

There isn't a command @reboot. I think you're looking for

shutdown -r now

or (possibly)

/sbin/reboot

which will reboot your machine. However, in crontab a @reboot is a scheduled time, so that's the command it would run when your system has just rebooted... so perhaps you really just wanted

cd my_project_path; ./start.sh

Answer 2

@reboot in crontab means "Do that / execute that on server boot"