need help with cron job

[Grievous Angel]

I feel like I'm missing something. I just backed up from the latest semi-official ASUS firmware (372 I think) to the latest Merlin Beta because I want to run a cron job that will restart my wifi every morning (to work around the 5g signal drop).

The update seems to go OK--and even creating the cron job seems to work, it's the reboot that goes wrong. When I reboot, "crontab -l" shows no jobs--and the file I created is gone.

Here are the steps I took:

Installed Merlin's latest beta firmware, then did a factory reset.

Enabled JFFS partition and format on reboot, then rebooted the router.

Ensured the "format on reboot" setting was off after the reboot.

Created a file in /jffs/scripts to create the cron job (per vdemarco's instructions) to run the "restart_wireless" at 5 AM every day.

I ran that file manually. When I do a crontab -l it shows up.

However, when I reboot, the crontab -l shows no jobs, and the file I created in /jffs/scripts is gone.

By the way I was using telnet not SSH . . not sure why I'd use one over the other but I'm not familiar with ssh.

What am I missing? (thanks)

 

[RMerlin]

There's currently an issue where the JFFS partition can get reformatted at boot time. You have to manually clear the flag, and commit it back to flash:

nvram set jffs2_format=0
nvram commit

If that doesn't work, then do one more full format:

nvram set jffs2_format=1
nvram commit
reboot

And after reboot, set the flag back to 0 and commit it.

 

[Grievous Angel]

BOOM. That first step was enough. Thanks.