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| Started by | "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> |
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| First post | 2017-09-19 15:40 +0200 |
| Last post | 2017-09-19 17:20 +0200 |
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Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-09-19 15:40 +0200
Re: Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2017-09-19 16:10 +0200
Re: Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-09-19 17:20 +0200
| From | "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> |
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| Date | 2017-09-19 15:40 +0200 |
| Subject | Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at |
| Message-ID | <urqUN-62D-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
This raspberry Pi is running jessie lite. Raspberry Pi documentation says that cron and at jobs are disabled by default. There is a very odd fix recommended by some documentation in which one edits a file named /home/pi/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.raspbmc.settings/settings.xml You supposedly edit that file and change a variable which allows cron and at jobs to now run. Since unix-like systems have had running crons for decades, is there a more conventional way to restore this functionality? There is something odd about needing kodi installed to make cron work. Kodi is not installed which is why I am asking before wasting all this disk space just to turn cron on. If you don't need kodi, could you just create that path and file with that one variable to act as a place-holder and enable cron? Thanks for all constructive ideas. Martin McCormick
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| From | Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> |
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| Date | 2017-09-19 16:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <urrnQ-6rz-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #187008 |
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, at 14:35, Martin McCormick wrote: > This raspberry Pi is running jessie lite. Raspberry Pi > documentation says that cron and at jobs are disabled by > default. There is a very odd fix recommended by some > documentation in which one edits a file named > > /home/pi/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.raspbmc.settings/settings.xml > > You supposedly edit that file and change a variable which allows > cron and at jobs to now run. Since unix-like systems have had > running crons for decades, is there a more conventional way to > restore this functionality? I've no idea, but the obvious question is: is this because 'Jessie lite' clearly doesn't have all the features of a full OS? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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| From | John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> |
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| Date | 2017-09-19 17:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <urstz-77o-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #187008 |
Somebody is assuming that the only use for a Pi is to run a home theater and that users can't handle the terrifying task of carrying out a trivial edit of a text file. You probably just need to edit /etc/default/cron. If the Pi is not powered up all the time install anacron. -- John Hasler jhasler@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
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