Thanks for the response Doug! I'll answer inline below...
On 1/8/16, Doug Clapp <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using busybox crond and crontab on a Puppy PC distribution. The > crond runs with no parameters. I use crontab to create/edit my cron > file. The file itself is indeed in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/user > (where "user" is the owner of the crontab file). I've been using this > for several years and so far it has worked as I expect. I haven't used > the -c parameter to crond or crontab but as I read the help info it > means crond and crontab use that path instead of > /var/spool/cron/crontabs. Ok, that's what I was thinking too. The help I found for the commands of busybox are not very indepth so it's hard to decipher what is meant at times (https://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html). I don't want to change that location if that truly is what's going on. If anyone else can verify I would appreciate it. > When you speak of "cron jobs" it reminds me > of the way "at" jobs were stored when I used it under several flavors of > Unix. Are you sure you aren't conflating the two (cron and at)? No confusion, I am aware of both 'at' and 'cron'. On my Debian system, there's an /etc/cron.d directory that will automatically process files placed in it without having to make adjustments to a particular accounts crontab. Kinda like a system-wide cron job storage directory. Obviously this needs to be used with caution and most likely not by users. I'm trying to mimic that on the system I'm working on with BB. Is anyone aware if the BB cron daemon uses an /etc/crontab config file? I might be able to create something similiar to Debian using that file. > As to whether anybody still watches the list - some people have jobs and > other commitments so they may not read it every day. Some are not > necessarily interested in or expert in a given area (cron in this case), > some may wait to see if any other subscriber has a better response > first, some may have other reasons for not responding right away. I can definitely understand this, that's why I was attempting to provide as much information as I uncovered it via subsequent posts. And also gave it days before attempting to reach out again. Of course I'm also thankful for those who can help (as you can see by all of my replies). Dave _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
