--- In Jim Jackson <> wrote:
>
>
>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> > 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
>
> Sorry, I should have read more carefully.
>
> > $ 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?
>
> I did
>
> strings /bin/busybox | grep cron
>
> and there is no mention of /etc/crontab. I suspect it emulates the
original
> bsd cron, not more modern ones, like vixie cron - which introduced
> refinements like global /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d
>
> Use crontab -e to setup your crontab, it'll put it in
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs under the account name, and it works,
I've just
> checked.
>
> Jim
>
Hi,
looks like a cross post. I'd found /var/spool/cron was needed but was
probably getting confused by other variants as you suggest.
Bit of a side issue, do you know a way to get the .config for
busybox? The TS distributed one is pretty old and buggy and a quick
look at the changelog makes me quite keen to update it.
I'm just cautious about borking the whole system if I dont get it
close to the TS config.
Thanks for you help.
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