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[ts-7000] Re: cron on 7250

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: cron on 7250
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:19:28 -0000
--- In  "j.chitte" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  Jim Jackson <jj@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, j.chitte wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I need to set up a couple of cron jobs on a 7250. I have set 
> crond to
> > > start in rcS.sysinit and put a simple test line in /etc/crontab
> > >
> > > * * * * * root /etc/cron/cron.test
> > >
> > >> From what I've been able to find this should be enough but it 
> does
> > > not get executed as I expect.
> > >
> > > Is this too minimalist?
> > 
> > Is crond running?
> > 
> >    ps | grep crond
> > 
> > Is crond present in your setup? I can't remember if it was 
> compiled into 
> > the supplied busybox? You'll need to arrange for crond to be 
> started
> > at boot.
> >
> 
> Thanks Jim, 
> 
> like I said , I set it to run at boot, I should have added that I 
> checked. Yes crond is there in ps
> 
>   PID  Uid     VmSize Stat Command
>     1 root        464 S   /sbin/init 
>     2 root            SW  [keventd]
>     3 root            SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
>     4 root            SW  [kswapd]
>     5 root            SW  [bdflush]
>     6 root            SW  [kupdated]
>     7 root            SW  [mtdblockd]
>    30 root        624 S   crond              
>    77 1           448 S   /sbin/portmap 
>    82 root        680 S   /usr/sbin/inetd 
> ...
> 
> 
> $ cat /etc/cron/cron.test
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "cron test"`date "+%D"`>/etc/cron/cron.msg
> 
> this works from cli:
> $ cat /etc/cron/cron.msg                         
> cron test04/07/08
> 
> $ cat /etc/crontab
> * * * * *  /etc/cron/cron.test
> 
> Am I messing up or is this more BusyBorks?
> 
> Thx.
>

OK , I found out if I put the crontab in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
root I do get the job run , so the basic function is there. It's 
config problem.

AFAIKT this is specific user crontabs , this is run if I log in as 
root. What I was trying for was a system wide crontab that would get 
run on boot.

I believed that was /etc/crontab by default.

It seems not.



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