On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 02:40:21PM -0500, David Henderson wrote: > While this is simply just a proof of concept, I could not get this to > run correctly. It had to be an obvious two-step approach, so I > created an initial root crontab and a small shell script to > dynamically create it there afterwards based on the contents of > /etc/cron.d. > > Initial /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root: > * * * * * /etc/cron.d/.cron.d > > /etc/cron.d/.cron.d: > #!/bin/sh > cat /etc/cron.d/* > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > echo "* * * * * $0" >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root > > I can see that the actual /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file continues > to dynamically populate based on the contents of /etc/cron.d, however, > none of the jobs listed in those files actually runs. Here's a sample > of what would be inside one of them: > > * * * * * date > /tmp/test1.txt > > I've also tried with and without usernames and is doesn't work either. > Any thoughts?
Looking through the source code, I see: - cron will re-examine user crontabs every hour - cron will parse and delete cron.update every minute if it exists - cron.update is created by 'crontab', and is a simple list of users whose cron jobs need to be updated. In your example, .cron.d would need to have this line at the end: echo 'root' >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/cron.update If that's not the problem, I've got no ideas. HTH, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox