# Nightly Reboot of GL-AR750?

**URL:** <https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/nightly-reboot-of-gl-ar750/10855>\
**Category:** Router\
**Created:** [May 20, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/nightly-reboot-of-gl-ar750/10855 "2020-05-20T12:50:48Z")\
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You can schedule tasks with cron:

> **[Scheduling tasks with cron](https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/cron)**
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> Scheduling tasks with cron This article relies on the following: \* Accessing web interface / command-line interface \* Managing configs / packages / services / logs Introduction \* OpenWrt can run scheduled tasks using cron service. \* This...

Specifically:

> Reboot at 4:30am every day  
> Note: To avoid infinite reboot loop, wait 70 seconds  
> and touch a file in /etc so clock will be set  
> properly to 4:31 on reboot before cron starts.

> 30 4 \* \* \* sleep 70 && touch /etc/banner && reboot

So from gl-inet web interface go:

> More settings \> advanced \> system \> scheduled tasks

Howevre, you have to first ‘restart’ the Cron service to make your edits stick by visiting:

> More settings \> advanced \> system \> startup

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