cron anyone?
 

Still under testing. Straight compile (almost) from Debian repositories. I will post on maemo garage as soon as I figure out how to :-)
The only thing left to do is to get it to run via an rc2.d/ script.
Any comments? Please PM me for the tarball.

Re: cron anyone?
 

Stupid me. I just had to make a link in the rc2.d/ directory. Seems to work like a charm. Any takers?

*edit*

Oh, and crontab is included too :-)

Re: cron anyone?
 

I'm very interested. You beat me to the port (still finishing a semester of school). It works well?

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I am up for the task :)

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I'll Bite your hand off.

rick

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@ mzandrew: I'm doing my final year at university :-) And it seems to work without any problems.

So here it is:
http://www.anomaly-music.com/cron/

Read the README, download the .tar.gz and follow the instructions!

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I installed it and it doesn't seem to run my cron jobs. I'm a bit rusty on crontabs, so forgive me if it's my fault.

On my desktop machine, this runs all the scripts in /etc/cron.hourly every hour on the hour:
and the same line on my 770 does nothing. I have a script called "touchy" in each /etc/cron.hourly that simply touches a file in the root directory so that I can easily tell whether it's working.

Since there's no /var/log/messages on my 770, I can't even see the error message that cron would be reporting.

What I did: I ran the installer after untarring the file in /root. I didn't reboot after install, I just ran cron. I edited the crontab using crontab -e. I've tried killing cron and re-running it to no avail.

Any ideas anyone?

Re: cron anyone?
 

Try this command:

This should touch the file /test every minute, on the minute. It worked for me straight out of the (scratch)box. Try this command, if it works maybe your crontab syntax is rustier than you thought :P (just kidding!)
I am of absolutely no use in crontab syntax... all I know are the very basics. Nevertheless, I use it for some basic tasks on a (badly maintained, admittidely) Linux box I have at home.

*edit*

cron runs as root, so maybe you could/should leave out the "root" part from that statement. As for the run-parts... is that a separate bin or is it interpreted by cron itself (I didn't need to go too much into detail with the cron source to compile it)?

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PS: I don't think the 770 has a run-parts script. Save the file at http://examples.oreilly.com/upt3/split/run-parts to the /usr/bin or /bin directory and chmod it to be executable by root (or everyone). Try
This should do the trick. I'm still unsure about the "root" part, although it is probably good syntax.

Re: cron anyone?
 

run-parts is already installed and is executable. It's a symlink to busybox:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 29 2006 /bin/run-parts -> busybox