Is Crontab working in BT4-PreF? (It's not in Beta)
My mobile phone was stolen yesterday so I had no alarm clock to wake me up this morning, so last night I tried to use Crontab to play an audio file, but couldn't get it to work.
I think the last time I used Crontab as an alarm clock was when I was using Xubuntu, and it worked fine, but I just couldn't get it working in BT4beta (note that I'm using Beta).
So is Crontab working in BT4-PreFinal?
I ended up doing "apt-get install kalarm-kde3", but then that program wouldn't work! When the alarm time arrived it just spat out "Can't execute the command"
So after losing about an hour's sleep pissing around trying to get an alarm clock, I eventually resorted to writing a C program that waits for 5 hours and then plays an MP3:
It worked a charmed but I cuda done with the extra hour's sleep I spent pissing about trying to get an alarm clock!Code:#include <unistd.h> /* sleep */ #include <stdlib.h> /* system */ int main(void) { sleep(5u * 60 * 60); system("mpg123 ~/storage/music/legally_backed_up/haha_yeah_right/oasis/talk_tonight.mp3"); return 0; }
Anyway back to the point, is Crontab working in the Pre-Final?
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Man did i just lol
Ya cron doesn't seem to be working in the pre either, i wanted to write a ssh connect back script last night and have cron make sure it was up ever 10min or so. It was a no go and i ended up writing the thing in perl .. funny enough after an hour or so.
I could be wrong, or could just not know how to activate it, but it sure doesn't seem to be working for me.
Using backtrack for the first time is like being 10 years old again with the keys to a Ferrari.
I have a feeling the two of us might just be retards though, we probably just have to do something like:
Anyone know how to get it going?Code:cron --turn-on
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Well if you are not running as root you have to add your user to the cron group.
I tried to get it working under root with BT4beta, but no joy.
Can anyone try it out under root with BT4-PreFinal and see if it works?
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tested, and works as root, with only doing the following ;;Originally Posted by Virchanza
created a file /usr/sbin/crontest
ran crontab ::Code:# cat /usr/sbin/robtest #!/bin/bash echo "test 123" > /root/crontester
added this line ::Code:# crontab -e
waited.....*/1 * * * * /usr/sbin/fnord0crontest
Code:# cat /var/log/syslog ...................... Jul 1 09:14:01 leviathan /USR/SBIN/CRON[21756]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/fnord0crontest)that file /root/crontester was not there until cron created it.... (FYI), so cron looks to be working just fine in BT4pfCode:# pwd /root # ls -al crontester -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 Jul 1 09:14 crontester # cat crontester test 123
'see the fnords!'
Works fine for me as well as root
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