cron job

[tungsten]

can we run crontab in E680¿
lf yes we can do alot

change theme,
change ringtones,
change to flight mode,
.....endless things which we can automate at specific timing

[admin]

if u can port crontab in

[tungsten]

so anyone can confirm how to put the crontab in? :P

[tungsten]

number 50 post, back to guru again, hehehe

[tungsten]

ok back to topic,
can't locate the crontab in /usr/bin
thus doubt can use it, however I try to copied my linux crontab to /usr/bin, but its always says acess denied, seems like /usr/bin is protected, anyway to overcome this?

[admin]

it is protected, u can't write anything inside.

overcoming protected access not found out yet

[rpconnect]

ok back to topic,
can't locate the crontab in /usr/bin
thus doubt can use it, however I try to copied my linux crontab to /usr/bin, but its always says acess denied, seems like /usr/bin is protected, anyway to overcome this?

you will probably have to recompile the crontab application before it will work on the phone (see the thread on developing native qt apps). Once you have a compiled version, you can create an additional "bin" directory (e.g. /diska/bin) then update the PATH environment variable accordingly. It may be tricky to get the cron jobs to start with a simple phone reboot as we cannot (yet) modify the boot sequence, but you could use yantz's llin-loader shell script to start a cronjob process that should run as long as the phone is running...)

[hodpars]

I say why bother with C crontab? If scheduled tasks are what you want it would be easier to make your own little Java app, or modify one of the many Java scheduler apps to include script execution.

This might be helpful:

http://jcrontab.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

[tungsten]

that's deep, unless we have a emulator for E680, else dev work will be difficult, too bad the emulator by moto not that good, only able to test Java program but not the system itself

[lzxiaojia]

pls try busybox!