hi to the community I'm not sure here is the good place for my question because it's not related to the ppc architecture, but i try. Here is my problem I don't understand: I have an embended linux 2.4.20 on a 8260 ppc with a cramfs root file-system I use since 1 year. Everything works fine. During the init process, the content of the /etc directory is copy in a tmpfs file system and then then a tmpfs file-system is mounted on /etc and fill with the old content. (thanks to that, I can replace after some files in the /etc by other specific files store in a little jffs part of the flash with the customer specific configurations /etc configuration files).
Recently, I've decided to add cron to this platform and something very strange appear. My /etc/crontab file is very simple: ----------------------------------------------- SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO="" HOME=/ #test of cron * * * * * root echo date >>/tmp/essai ----------------------------------------------- everything works fine when I boot on a nfs file-system. But nothing is done (/tmp/essai not created) if I boot on the cramfs file-system. And what is the only difference beetwen the two startup:........ the timestamp of the /etc/crontab (1/1/1970 for crontab coming from the cramfs) So I try something after having boot on cramfs: echo "#toto">>/etc/crontab And ones I have done this, the cron process start to work correctly, creating and editing the /tmp/essai. I know that cron verify if the /etc/crontab has changed every mn, so I think this is the reason it works after, but why does it not see the first crontab file ? It's juste like the 1/1/1970 timestamp of /etc/crontab make him invisible by cron. Does anyone having an idea or having already encounter this kind of problem ? I have find nothing on the web about this or a similar problem. Thanks for any help -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hubert.loewenguth.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 285 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20060615/f2c94bbd/attachment.vcf
