How to install cron?
 

Hi,
I would like to run cron the SFOS. I've tried to install cron, crontab, nothing works.

So, obviously, I miss something, but what?

Thanks.

Re: How to run cron?
 

you must google cron usage

Re: How to run cron?
 

I know how to use it, it's just I don't find any command on SFOS related to cron. So I guess, I must install some additional packages, but I don't know which ones.

PS: I'll change the thread title.

Re: How to install cron?
 

Re: How to install cron?
 

Thanks a lot @coderus.

Re: How to install cron?
 

not me, temev :)

Re: How to install cron?
 

There is also fcron in Openrepos.

Re: How to install cron?
 

Heh, that's my vixie cron port :D

Very good and reliable basic crond, I have been using it for longer than an year.

Re: How to install cron?
 

Yeah, thank Juiceme for that. I just built it in the obs for my own purposes :)

Re: How to install cron?
 

Why not just use a systemd timer unit?

Re: How to install cron?
 

because it not utilizing iphb :)

Re: How to install cron?
 

What's 'iphb'? Cannot Google it...

Re: How to install cron?
 

https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/libiphb
https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/nemo-keepalive

Re: How to install cron?
 

There was an issue on cron on XperiaX and when solving that I found a bug in the implementation that for some reason had never bitten me on Jolla sbj1.

(see https://together.jolla.com/question/...-empty-output/ for description of the problem)

Now I have fixed that and released new RPM's;
http://swagman.org/juice/vixie-cron-3.0pl2-2.src.rpm
http://swagman.org/juice/vixie-cron-...-2.armv7hl.rpm

The new version will also be available in openrepos when @ade gets around updating the files.

Re: How to install cron?
 

Thanks a lot for patching, I updated my version on openrepos!

Do note my version on openrepos was/is a bit different (no man pages and the daemon is called crond, not vixie_crond).

In my personal experience, there is a small issue during an upgrade; the service got stopped/disabled.
I don't know for sure, but I think the %preun step in the spec file kicks in unwanted during an upgrade.

Following http://meinit.nl/rpm-spec-prepostpre...rgument-values you can act on argument values to do more specific actions (or no action at all).
I now check some of the conditions in my openrepos RPM, hope it helps for the next update :)