Bennor
December 1, 2017, 4:05pm
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As previously indicated use the forum search feature , magnifying glass icon upper right to find numerous past discussions on using CRON and SSH. For example…
http://community.wd.com/search?q=CRON%20category%3A105
A follow up question from How to run a cronjob? :
My WD My Cloud did a firmware update this weekend (forgot to turn off auto updating) that caused some settings to reset (including @Nazar78 ’s hostsdeny script , login key pairs and cron jobs). Most things are recovered, but I can’t get the cron job running again.
When I run crontab -e with my root user, my WD My Cloud replies: “no crontab for root - using an empty one”. That is why I added the hostsdeny.pl script to /etc/crontab (and it seems to …
Greetings all,
I want to run a cronjob that will check if my crashplan service is running once a day. If it’s not running, then I want to restart it.
To do this, I created a simple bash script called CP_restart_script that checks if the service is running, if no, then restart it. The script is in /etc/ and it works fine when called from the command line when logged in as root.
I then created a file called my_cronjobs in /etc/cron.d which just has the following line in it:
* * * * * root /e…
My 13 month old 4TB WDMC has been giving me sporadic problems for some time now, losing network connection, media stuttering, all sorts. I’ve ‘tinkered at the edges’ to keep things going but all to no avail, things have kept going wrong. I do have a certain amount of tech knowledge, so I knew what I was doing.
Then one day last week I managed to accidentally hit the ‘Quick restore’ button on the dashboard, don’t ask me how, I even managed to hit the confirmation button as well, so within second…