Hi guys, I am trying to restart cron whenever I update base-files package.
So I wrote a script "package/base-files/ipkg/base-files.postinst" :

/etc/init.d/S??cron restart

It gave me error while compiling the firmware

could not find file /etc/init.d/S??cron

So I tried :

IS_FIRMWARE=$(echo $IPKG_INSTROOT | grep build_mipsel)
if [ "$IS_FIRMWARE" = "" ];then
        crontab /etc/crontabs/rootcrons
        $IPKG_INSTROOT/etc/init.d/S??cron restart
        crontab /etc/crontabs/rootcrons
else
        echo "*****************$IPKG_INSTROOT**********************************************"
fi

It worked but is this the right way ?

Plus the command : "crontab /etc/crontabs/rootcrons" is not getting executed.

(Last edited by lnxnubie on 17 Jul 2007, 08:29)

Well the post install script worked and I found out the problem with "crontab /etc/crontabs/rootcrons" not working.
/etc/init.d/S60cron deletes all the files in /etc/crontab and copies it from /rom. So my new rootcrons was getting overwritten.