Crontab?
 

Anyone have an insight onto a crontab on Maemo 5?

Re: Crontab?
 

this would be interesting to me, too.

Re: Crontab?
 

Interesting. subscribed.

Re: Crontab?
 

See my sig... I have fcron though it requires some manual tweaking to make it work fully.

Re: Crontab?
 

The functionality can largely be replicated using libalarm though a direct cron port, which sleeps sensibly, shouldn't really be a problem.

Re: Crontab?
 

Yeah fcron is such a thing. It just sleeps until it has something to do.

I'm using it to set profiles at certain times.

Re: Crontab?
 

Here's the info... Some of this needs to be improved for sure. But for now it works.
deb https://repo.codemages.net/opt ./

apt-get install fcron

What you need to do manually:
create a fcron user
chown fcron:fcron /etc/fcron.*
chown -R fcron:fcron /var/spool/fcron

Then edit /etc/event.d/rcS-late

And after initctl emit MOUNTS_OK

put:
/etc/init.d/fcron start

Re: Crontab?
 

@ruskie thanks, I changed owner /etc.fcron.conf to root.fcron and chmod 644.
I also had to
mkdir -p /scratchbox/tools/bin
ln -s /usr/bin/vi /scratchbox/tools/bin/vi
so that I could use fcrontab -e to add crontab-file for root
I know use it to sync my calendar from my funabol-server every 10 min with syncevolution.

Re: Crontab?
 

If you actually want to have it use the editor you want then simply: export EDITOR=vi

Also you can change settings in /etc/fcron.conf I believe to tell it to use a different default editor.

You certainly don't need that mkdir and ln

Re: Crontab?
 

Are the repositories down?

https://repo.codemages.net/opt does not respond.

thanks,
Frank