--- In Jim Jackson <> wrote:
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> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, seabirds111 wrote:
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> > 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.
>
Thanks Jim, I have it figured out. But RSYNC is not built in right? I have to
use cygwin to compile rsync and generate the bin file and put in the bin
directory. Any idea where I can download rsync?
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