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

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: CRON and TS-7260
From: "weide72" <>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:54:21 -0000
Jim-

Thanks for your help. Everything works well.

Ryan


--- In  Jim Jackson <> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> 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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