I am looking for a way to give the wrt an auto reboot each night , so lets say after 43200 sec the restart will follow.

Is there a way to do so?

(Last edited by jaba on 14 Jul 2005, 16:03)

Juste use cron.

I thought so, but i am not formiliar with cron yet.
were do i find it, is it an ipkg that i need to install?

You don't have to install an ipkg-package.

I think you can create a cronjob in /etc/init.d/ for example.
But i'm not sure because before i used OpenWRT i created a cronjob in /tmp/cron.d/.

Sorry for my bad english.

jaba, this may be easier for you: 

cat > /etc/init.d/S98reboottimer
#!/bin/ash
sleep 24h && reboot &
<Press Control-D>
chmod +x /etc/init.d/S98reboottimer

next time you reboot this 24 hour timer will begin.  The trick is to line it up with midnight using a similar command.  If it is now 8pm, for example,

sleep 4h && reboot &

This will cause the wrt to reboot in 4 hours, at 12 midnight.  I'm not sure if the sleep command on the wrt takes strings like "1hr30m" but I know you can string sleeps together if you need to set it at a specific time:

sleep 2h && sleep 30m && reboot &

hope this helps.  Last time I tried to set up cron on a wrt I was unable to get it figured out, but my need wasn't really that big.

moj

For instance, you can create a file containing ::

* * */1 * * reboot

in /etc/crontabs/root (where root is a file and not a directory)
and finally, start crond like that ::

crond -c /etc/crontabs

Oh, man - I wish it wasn't as easy as you just showed it to be.  Thank you!!

Great answers, i will give it a try to the both off them.
Thanks.

I have installed your idea in all off the wrt54 I use, it works more then excellent.
Thanks for the help.

Usng a cron job that happens at 1am or whenever is better than trying to set up a 24 hour reboot and having the reboot happen at specific times.  To figure out what to put in your /etc/crontabs/root file you can use:
http://www.csgnetwork.com/crongen.html