14 replies to this topic

[frankviana]

I need to add a cron entry to restart each 5 minutes a bin file (/usr/bin/FILE) and I don't know how.

 

Cron is OK (opkg install busybox-cron).

 

crontab -e

 

??????

 

I have the file running fine, including init.d (rc3.d) with panel start/stop manually, but sometimes need to restart. I need auto restart each 5 minutes.

 

Sorry my english.

 

Thanks

 

Frank

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Edited by frankviana, 4 May 2014 - 15:45.

[Pedro_Newbie]

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/FILE

Edited by Pedro_Newbie, 4 May 2014 - 22:15.

[frankviana]

Thank you. I'll test.

[frankviana]

Don't work.

 

I need this sequence:

 

cd /usr/bin && killall FILE

 

cd /usr/bin && ./FILE

 

each 5 minutes

[Pedro_Newbie]

But when you insert these commands in a script and run this script every 5 minutes with e.g.:

*/5 * * * * /etc/enigma2/scripts/scriptname.sh

[frankviana]

I don't see "scripts" folder (/etc/enigma2)

 

I use this script (init.d)

 

=======================================

#!/bin/sh

CAMNAME="XXXXX"
SYSDATE=`date +%d"-"%m"-"%y"_"%H%M.log`


start(){
    cd /usr/bin && ./FILE >/media/PEN_4GB/software_logfile_$SYSDATE 2>&1
}
stop(){
    killall FILE 2>/media/PEN_4GB/software_logfile_$SYSDATE 2>&1
}

case "$1" in
    start)    
    start
    exit 0
    ;;
    stop)    
    stop
    sleep 1
    exit 0
    ;;
    restart)
    start
    ;;
    *)
    $0 stop
    exit 0
    ;;
esac

exit 0

[Pike_Bishop]

hi,

 

but you know;

Cron is OK (opkg install busybox-cron).

that's not enough !

to test your cronjob you must start the cron daemon first manually with;

/etc/init.d/busybox-cron start

or much better you put the cron daemon in autostart with;

update-rc.d busybox-cron defaults

and then restart your box complete.

 

 

regards

Biki3

[blzr]

nope, you don't need to start anything manually nor add any start script or anything after installing busybox-cron from the feed:
 

root@et9x00:~# opkg install  busybox-cron
Installing busybox-cron (1.22.1-r32) to root...
Downloading http://downloads.pli-images.org/feeds/openpli-4/mips32el/busybox-cron_1.22.1-r32_mips32el.ipk.
 Removing any system startup links for busybox-cron ...
Configuring busybox-cron.
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/busybox-cron.
starting Busybox Periodic Command Scheduler: crond... done.

Edited by blzr, 6 June 2014 - 17:21.

[Pike_Bishop]

hi blzr,

 

maybe...

 

but here i have installed pli-4.0 and first i didn't need that command;

opkg install  busybox-cron

because crond was out of the box in the image

then i maked a cronjob and test it first manually but it didn,t work and with the command top i didn't see a cronjob

only if i make then;

/etc/init.d/busybox-cron

it works

 

as next i restarted my box and it didn't work also, so i take a look at /etc/rc2d, /etc/rc3.d, and so on

and i can't  find any links to /etc/init.d/busybox-cron so i maked;

update-rc.d busybox-cron defaults

and after the next restart all works fine.

 

 

regards

Biki3

Edited by Biki3, 6 June 2014 - 19:06.

[blzr]

but here i have installed pli-4.0 and first i didn't need that command;
opkg install  busybox-cron
because crond was out of the box in the image

 

well, I'm pretty sure busybox-cron is not installed by default in OpenPLi image...
(btw. how did you deduced that 'crond was out of the box in the image'?)

[Pike_Bishop]

hi blzr,

 

i looked into /etc/init.d/ and found there the init script with name busybox-cron

then i looked into it and saw DAEMON=/usr/sbin/crond it was also here under /usr/sbin

but i didn't found the directory /etc/cron/crontabs, only /etc/cron i found, so i maked the missing directory, and into it

also a file with name root with the cronjob in there and then it works with manually start from the busybox-cron

and after a reboot also if i do the following before;

update-rc.d busybox-cron defaults

cross my heart - i'am not aware that i have installed busybox-cron separate.

 

regards

Biki3

Edited by Biki3, 7 June 2014 - 14:49.

[Pike_Bishop]

hi blzr,

 

maybe that's important (but i don't know) i didn't have a dreambox - my box is a xtrend et9000

[Pr2]

Hi,

 

No crond is not installed by default on Openpli 4 ET-9000.

 

# opkg list-installed | grep cron
# opkg list | grep cron
busybox-cron - 1.22.1-r32 - Tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities in a single small executable 
enigma2-plugin-extensions-crondmanager - 1.0 - Crondmanager Plugin for dreambox kernel-module-mt9v011 - 3.8.7-r6.11 - mt9v011 kernel module  mt9v011 kernel module; Micron mt9v011 sensor
 
# ls /etc/init.d/busy*
ls: /etc/init.d/busy*: No such file or directory

[GrickoNk]

Hello,I need help witch cron/crontabs/root scrip for reboot ,

30 05 * * * wget -O /dev/null -q http://root:password...tate?newstate=2

35 05 * * * wget -O /dev/null -q http://root:password...tate?newstate=0

dont dreambox go to reboot,same help please.Txn

[korsan]

wget -sq http://localhost/web...state?newstate=2

-1: get current state
0: toggle standby
1: poweroff/deepstandby
2: rebootdreambox
3: rebootenigma