HD Install :: cron as dsl extension or as cheat code
I am now working with dsl3.3 in Frugal grub install I noticed the extension cron30.dsl and added, after its installation, the start of the cron deamon in bootlocal.sh (as adviced in cron30.dsl information) It works fine but I am confused about the use of cron cheatcode. Does it do the same thing than what I wrote in bootlocal.sh?The cron bootcode is for the cron-like perl program added to DSL 3.2. It's possible that the extension overwrites the perl executable, so it may still work for you, but I can't say for sure.I'm trying to use cron as a cheatcode and it doesn't seem to be working.
Should a "cron" process be running?
Should the "crontab" command work?
Thanks.
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Should a "cron" process be running?
No, if you mean the program in the mydsl extension. It launches a perl version of cron, so perl will be running as the process. The script is MyCron though.
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Should the "crontab" command work?
I do not think a crontab command was included, but I think it just opens up /etc/crontab in the default console editor anyways. You could make a wrapper script or alias if you wanted to.
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