On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, seabirds111 wrote:
> I am working on a school project that requires crontab to be installed on
> the TS-Linux. I also don't want to use Debian due to cost and the power
> consumption. Has anyone here installed crontab on the barebone linux?
> How should I proceed?
Are you sure?
Check
ls -l /usr/sbin/crond
I thought crond was in the TS-Linux image.
All the crontab program does is edit a file in /var/spool/cron/crontabs
(there is one file per username) so /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
contains the crontab entries for the root user.
You need to make sure crond is started. For testing you can just start
/usr/sbin/crond by executing it. If you edit the
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file then you need to send the crond demon a
HUP signal - or kill it and restart it.
You then need to figure out how to get crond to start everytime the board
reboots! You need to research the "System V init system" to find out what
happens when the TS image boots up.
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