Slate 7, cron not running?

manderss99 · 2025-04-25T07:24:55.068Z

cron jobs does not seem to be executed, after I did this it started working:

root@GL-BE3600:~# /etc/init.d/cron status
active with no instances
root@GL-BE3600:~#
root@GL-BE3600:~# /etc/init.d/cron start
root@GL-BE3600:~# /etc/init.d/cron status
running
root@GL-BE3600:~#
root@GL-BE3600:~# /etc/init.d/cron enable
root@GL-BE3600:~#
root@GL-BE3600:~# /etc/init.d/cron status
running

bruce · 2025-04-29T03:11:37.409Z

Seems to be reproduced on my BE3600, will ask R&D guys to check.

bruce · 2025-05-07T07:19:07.680Z

Update:

The cron state is disable by default.
If you configure crontab -e in SSH, you need to start manually.
If you add cron tasks in Luci and save&apply, it will enable/start automatically.

Note, this is related to the openwrt source code and is not a bug.