Re: [Efw-user] Disconnect/Reconnect cronjob

[Vassilis <Big...@gm...>]

Hello Rafael!

I added the root there since it was there from a howto I found on a 
german forum. I removed it and the script works, thank you!

Seeing in the crontab file the daily, hourly, etc cron jobs, I noticed 
the lines "[ -x /bin/run-parts ] && run-parts --report" in front of the 
command. I dont understand what they mean and should I add them to my 
own cronjob aswell?

Thank you for your help!
Vassilis


Rafael Fonseca schrieb:
> Why did you add the 'root' part in front of the script? AFAIK, that 
> shouldn't be there. Just make sure you chmod 755 the script, and you 
> don't even need to sh <script>, as you already have the #!/bin/sh line 
> there, which tell whatever shell you're in that they should use sh to 
> run your script.
> 
> 2009/7/30 Vassilis <Big...@gm... <mailto:Big...@gm...>>
> 
>     Hello all!
> 
>     Since my ISP is disconnecting my connection every 24 hours I would like
>     to make sure that happens in the early morning hours rather than at
>     noon.
> 
>     After a bit of searching I found the .sh script that works but I havent
>     managed to get it to work properly.
> 
>     This is the .sh script:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     # Reconnect and update DynDNS
> 
>     /etc/rc.d/uplinks stop main
>     sleep 90
>     /usr/local/bin/setddns.pl
>     sleep 30
>     /usr/local/bin/setddns.pl
> 
>     I made a folder called /customscripts and moved the .sh file in there.
>     Running it manually via "sh <scriptname.sh> works perfectly, getting it
>     to run at a specific time is where I am stuck.
> 
>     I edited the /etc/crontab file and added at the end:
> 
>     30 3 * * * root /customscripts/reconnect.sh
> 
>     This should run the script at 03:30 in the morning but unfortunately it
>     doest work. Since this is my first cronjob ever I am almost certain I
>     have missed something trivial but important :-)
> 
>     Thank you!
> 
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