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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