Additions to Crontab Reverting

[Grauwind]

Hi all together,

I had the same Issue like tristan but I found the following workaround.

First of all, thank you for your research. That saved me some of time.
I’ve got a Personal Cloud with firmware 2.21.126.
I tried to configure some jobs with editing the /usr/local/config/config.xml. That worked fine until I added more than one entry. With two or more custom entries the nas did not startup anymore. So I had to do the 40s-reset. After a while with try and error I found a workaround.

1. on the web admin interface - create some dummy entries for internal backup. This will create a new entry <internal_backup> in /usr/local/config/config.xml

my config.xml now looked like this:
…

	
		6
		stime
		wd_crontab
		app_get_info
		recycle_bin_clear
		chk_wfs_download
		internal_backup
		random_check
		fw_available
		user_expire_chk
		
...

		
			3
			<1>0
			<2>0
			<3>*
			<4>*
			<5>*
			internal_backup -a test1 -c jobrun &
		
		
			3
			<1>0
			<2>1
			<3>*
			<4>*
			<5>*
			internal_backup -a test2 -c jobrun &
		

2. now you can abuse the entry <internal_backup> for your own job. You can delete the dummy backup-jobs via web interface. The tag <internal_backup> will remain in config.xml.

3. just add your own jobs by abusing <internal_backup>. It seems that’s some kind of special tag, that allows to add items without limit

4. restart