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I set some scripts to run using `crontab -e`, but these get lost after a reboot. A comment in /etc/crontabs/root says uci generates cron entries from /etc/config/crontabs. What is the syntax for this file? I tried putting regular cron entries there, but `uci commit` failed with parse errors. I searched the wiki/forums but couldn't find any docs. Thanks for any help.
(Last edited by mfyahya on 20 Dec 2009, 12:22)
I also couldn't find anything describing the crontab format for /etc/config/crontabs but discovered the Xwrt web interface knew how to, give it a try.
An example I'm using to (hopefully) keep my WLAN working:
config 'crontab'
option 'minutes' '*/10'
option 'hours' '*'
option 'days' '*'
option 'months' '*'
option 'weekdays' '*'
option 'command' '/etc/checkWLAN'
option 'enabled' '1'
how true is this in backfire... I canst seem to get this working
root@OpenWrt:/vol/vol0/backup/log# cat /etc/config/crontabs
config 'crontab'
option 'minutes' '0'
option 'hours' '2'
option 'days' '*'
option 'months' '*'
option 'weekdays' '*'
option 'command' '[ -x /vol/vol0/backup/bin/backUpRoot ] && /vol/vol0/backup/bin/backUpRoot > /dev/null 2>&1'
option 'enabled' '1'wont work...
(Last edited by ghatothkach on 7 Nov 2011, 18:46)
The /etc/config/crontabs file is part of X-Wrt, its not present in standard OpenWrt, simply use /etc/crontabs/root there.
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