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Re: [ts-7000] Re: CRON and TS-7260

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: CRON and TS-7260
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:43:51 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, weide72 wrote:

> When I type help bb, crond is in the list but not crontab.
>
> To see if the cron daemon is installed I get a link for crond but
> nothing for crontab. This is before and after I used the ln -s to
> enable both crond and crontab.
> $ which crond
> /usr/sbin/crond
> $ which crontab
> $
>
> How do I get crontab installed?

If you really do need the crontab functionality you need to recompile
busybox to contain that functionality - I'm very surprized that someone
built busybox with crond but without crontab.

However as far as i know, you can do without it and still get crond to
work.

you need crond running - as root just type

 crond

it will start. To find out what the command line options are

 crond --help


You can edit crontab entries using the vi editor, as long as you know
which file to edit! So you don't actually need the crontab command.

edit  /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root using vi and setup your cron entries.

You may have to send crond a HUP signal to make it re-read any new/edited
crontab file(s).

Jim







 
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