cron as dsl extension or as cheat code

Forum: HD Install
Topic: cron as dsl extension or as cheat code
started by: och

Posted by och on April 20 2007,11:05

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?

Posted by mikshaw on April 20 2007,14:34

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.

Posted by Guest on June 13 2007,21:18

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.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 13 2007,23:07

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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.