Scheduling rebooting??

[Calv]

"0 6 2 * *"

You want Tuesday, of any month (*) and any week (*).




"0 6 2 * 1"

Would be the Tuesday, of any month (*), the first week (1).

That's at least the theory. The "week" parameter isn't a standard cron parameter AFAIK, might be specific to the crond build in Busybox I guess.

Hi Sorry to bother you and I apologize for bumping such an old topic. I started learning merlin and its capabilities from this very own forum topic.

If I want Tuesday, of any month (*) and any week (*), it would be:
0 6 * * 2
Isnt it?

I was a bit confused.

 

[ColinTaylor]

It's:
min hour day month week

# cru

Cron Utility
add:    cru a <unique id> <"min hour day month week command">
delete: cru d <unique id>
list:   cru l

 

[Calv]

It's:
min hour day month week

# cru

Cron Utility
add:    cru a <unique id> <"min hour day month week command">
delete: cru d <unique id>
list:   cru l

I tried for my own reboot schedule "0 5 3 * *" I wanted to reboot every Wednesday 5AM.
But this script rebooted my router yesterday at 5am. May 3rd.

http://www.openjs.com/scripts/jslibrary/demos/crontab.php
And this generator also tells me to change the "week" part instead of the "day."

"0 5 * * 3" ?

Still confused.

 

[john9527]

It did exactly what you told it....
min = 0, hour = 5, day of month = 3, month = any, day of week = any

You want "0 5 * * 3"

(for day of week, Sunday is either 0 or 7)

 

[Calv]

It did exactly what you told it....
min = 0, hour = 5, day of month = 3, month = any, day of week = any

You want "0 5 * * 3"

(for day of week, Sunday is either 0 or 7)

RMerlin had it "0 X X * *" this way but "X X * * X" seems the right one for what I want to do. Thanks a lot!

 

[ColinTaylor]

It did exactly what you told it....
min = 0, hour = 5, day of month = 3, month = any, day of week = any

You want "0 5 * * 3"

(for day of week, Sunday is either 0 or 7)

Good spot John. Perhaps "cru l" should say "day-of-week" instead of "week" to avoid confusion.

Regarding RMerlin's comment that "week" is non-standard. This has been the standard format in every version of Unix I've come across.

 

[aventus]

will this guide http://www.snbforums.com/threads/scheduling-rebooting.11044/#post-68429 work with 378.53 ?

im bit confused because Enable JFFS partition is already activated standard


i need activate the both menus too?

Format JFFS partition at next boot
Enable JFFS custom scripts and configs


in the wiki it say:

#!/bin/sh
cru a ScheduledReboot "0 4 * * * /sbin/reboot"

Put this inside an init-start user script.

i need create a file with notepad++? save it as (txt, sh.)?

 

[Calv]

will this guide http://www.snbforums.com/threads/scheduling-rebooting.11044/#post-68429 work with 378.53 ?

im bit confused because Enable JFFS partition is already activated standard


i need activate the both menus too?

Format JFFS partition at next boot
Enable JFFS custom scripts and configs


in the wiki it say:

#!/bin/sh
cru a ScheduledReboot "0 4 * * * /sbin/reboot"

Put this inside an init-start user script.

i need create a file with notepad++? save it as (txt, sh.)?

I know I'm not in a place to give someone a tip about merlin as I just learned it but I successfully have this done so maybe I'll give it a go.

Use the putty.exe as mentioned by Rmerlin and connect with telnet. Have those codes entered one line at a time. And it creates the .sh for you.

 

[ColinTaylor]

in the wiki it say:

#!/bin/sh
cru a ScheduledReboot "0 4 * * * /sbin/reboot"

Put this inside an init-start user script.

i need create a file with notepad++? save it as (txt, sh.)?

Use notepad++ to create a file called "init-start", it has no file extension. Put that file in /jffs/scripts/.

Reboot and you're done.

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/User-scripts

 

[Calv]

Use notepad++ to create a file called "init-start", it has no file extension. Put that file in /jffs/scripts/.

Reboot and you're done.

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/User-scripts

How do you access /jffs/scripts/ ?

 

[ColinTaylor]

How do you access /jffs/scripts/ ?

Enable SSH (Administration > System > Miscellaneous). Then you could use something like WinSCP (set the protocol to SCP).

 

[Calv]

Enable SSH (Administration > System > Miscellaneous). Then you could use something like WinSCP (set the protocol to SCP).

Will try, thank you!

 

[aventus]

thank you Colin Taylor

lets see if it restart

 

[aventus]

colin it didnt work

i created a file init-start no extension there i add

#!/bin/sh
cru a ScheduledReboot "0 4 * * * /sbin/reboot"

put it in /jffs/scripts/ and rebooted router

 

[Vaesel]

Creating scripts
Don't forget to set any script you create as being executable:

chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/*

 

[aventus]

@Vaesel

chmod: 0755 is enough for the file or 0744?

edit: a+rx is 0755 found it over google

 

[ColinTaylor]

colin it didnt work

You need to set "Enable JFFS custom scripts and configs" to Yes. (This option didn't exist prior to 378.50 Beta 1).

 

[aventus]

ok thank you colin

now i enabled custom scripts and chmod to 0755 too will test it later

 

[aventus]

it didnt worked

JFFS enabled
custom script enabled

init-start file created with

#!/bin/sh
cru a ScheduledReboot "0 4 * * * /sbin/reboot"

added in /jffs/scripts/

chmod 0755 for the file only

and router manual restarted

 

[ColinTaylor]

it didnt worked

How are you editing/transferring the file? My guess is that your file contains DOS/Windows end-of-line characters.