Feature Request: Enable Crontab

[wilsonnkwan]

Hi, I understand that Cron is part of the kit, but as of now, the crontabs do not exist, it keeps pointing to var/spool directory but the cron/crontabs do not exist. I tried creating it but it does not survive a reboot. anyway that you can make this permanent or teach me how to do it?

[wilsonnkwan]

I sort of figured it out, not the most elegant solution, but it works for now.

1. Create a cron file in a more permanent location like /root/ where there is a text file say abc.txt which contains the cron file.
2. Create a initialization file for cron in /etc/init.d/S99Cron, within that file: a) mkdir -p /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ b) cp /root/abc.txt /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root 3) crond (to start the cron).

not sure if it will interfer with the system, so if you have a better solution, do share.