Fix for Cron-Job problem

[Sascha_77]

Hi folx.

i figured out how to activate Cron-Tabs "properly". Normally after a reboot the crontab is not loaded automatically. That´s a little bit annoying. The Solution for me was the following.

Put this 2 lines at the start of the S99user-script:

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sleep 120
crontab -u root /conf/root


Before this could work, create an file named "root" in the /conf Directory

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touch /conf/root


After that:

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nano /conf/root


That is my content of "root" for example:

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# min   hour    mday    month   wday    command
*/10     *       *       *       *   /apps/downloadd/bin/ddconsole --host 127.0.0.1 --port 56789 --command "pkg activate 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9"
*/1      *       *       *       *   echo power led off >> /proc/led
*/1      *       *       *       *   echo status led off >> /proc/led
*/1      *       *       *       *   sh /conf/foldercheck


Cronjobs are now loaded automatically and all is fine.

[mad_ady]

Good job on describing the solution. However, I don't know why, but my cron jobs have worked without issues since 0.4.2.2 (when I first created the jobs), so I assumed they would work on all firmwares.

I'm moving your comments to the wiki: http://wiki.wdlxtv.com/Crontab
Fell free to make changes if you want to.

[kroetkroet]

mad_ady, maybe you are running ext3/root.bin and not native flash

[mad_ady]

Nope, always running flashed version, and I never had problems with it... Didn't realize it wasn't working for others.

But I did set it up back in 0.4.2.2 as far as I remember... Maybe some things have broken since then...

[b-rad.cc]

uhmm...

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config_tool -c CROND=ON

working just fine.