yfi_setup_centos_cron

Cron Scripts - RHEL/CentOS

YFi Hotspot Manager requires a few scripts to run periodically in order to maintain a healthy and working system.
Most of the scripts are CakePHP shell scripts.
This makes it easy to interact with the MySQL database used by FreeRADIUS.

• To enable/activate the CRON script, just copy the script from the "yfi_cake" directory

  cp /var/www/html/c2/yfi_cake/setup/cron/yfi /etc/cron.d/
  

• We will also have to modify the CRON script by replacing the apache user and path to suite RHEL/CentOS

  cd /etc/cron.d
  sed 's|www-data|apache|g' yfi > yfi.tmp;mv yfi.tmp yfi;
  sed 's|/var/www/c2|/var/www/html/c2|g' yfi > yfi.tmp;mv yfi.tmp yfi;
  

• For those of you new to sed, the "sed" lines above does the following:

  • It Searches for "www-data" and replaces it with "apache" string.

  • It then takes the output of the operation and writes it to a file "yfi.tmp".

  • And finally, it renames the file "yfi.tmp" with the corrected string (apache) to "yfi".

  • The same goes for the second line; Replaces "/var/www/c2" with "/var/www/html/c2", outputs the file to
    "yfi.tmp" and lastly renames the file "yfi.tmp" to "yfi". NOTE: As mentioned above, you must follow this steps in order to avoid problems later on with cron.

Congratulations! Your YFi Hotspot Manager setup is complete

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Detail on scripts

Should you want to know what the function of each script is, the following page has more detail:
pptpd setup