On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Mike Dodd wrote:
> Jim Jackson wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Mike Dodd wrote:
> >
> >> Jim Jackson wrote:
> >>> As far as I know, the build of busybox in the standard TSLinux image
> >>> did not include cron - so be default it is not available.
>
> Yes, I found Dillon crond in /usr/sbin, but how do I get it to work?
>
> Looking at the C source code, it appears that it looks in
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs, but if I put a crontab file there, crond says
> "ignorming crontab" at startup. If I move the crontab up one level to
> /var/spool/cron, crond starts without the "ignoring" message, but
> doesn't execute the commands in crontab at the specified times. I have
> simple commands, like echo 'Hello' and date.
There should be a program called "crontab"
crontab -e
edits your crontab entries, it uses vi by default or whatever your
EDITOR environment variable is set to.
>
> I also created a cron.hourly directory in /var/spool/cron/crontabs, and
> put a simple shell script there. But the script is not executed on the hour.
>
> So a regular crontab doesn't work, and a script in cron.hourly doesn't run.
>
> Anyone know what Dillon crond is looking for, and where?
>
> Thanks to all.
>
> --
> Mike
>
> Mike Dodd
> Louisa County, VA USA
>
> http://mdodd.com
>
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