[haiku-development] Re: Development of Free Pascal port to Haiku

  • From: Disreali <mdisreali@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:17:03 -0800 (PST)


--- On Sun, 2/5/12, Pierre Free Pascal <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   I have a question related to
> trying to get a nightly testsuite
> executed on Haiku.
> 
>   I read somewhere that the cron job
> is always enabled in Haiku and that
> you simply needed to added something to /etc/cron.d
> but I added a file called
> 
> ~> ls /etc/cron.d/
> cron
> ~> cat /etc/cron.d/cron
>  * * * * * /bin/bash echo "Test $USER" >
> /boot/home/cron.txt
> ~> ls /boot/home/
> Desktop  config  logs  mail  mutt 
> nohup.out  pas
> 
> This is supposed to create/modify the file
> /boot/home/cron.txt
> on each minute, but it doesn't work at all.
> 
> I found no cron inside /var/log/syslog either...
> 
> Can anyone help me out here?


AFAIK Haiku does not have cron.  You would have to port it.


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