Troble setting cron

battles

I have tried to set the cron settings to update the pfBlockerNG list at 0700. It is apparently not working and continues to update at 0000. I take my machine down at night, so I have to manually update it daily. Here is my setup:

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BBcan177

The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…

battles

Thanks, now I see the light! There doesn't seem to be a 'weekly' in the list.

drewsaur

@BBcan177:

The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…

When I set this to "3", it wants to run my daily CRON at 1 AM. What might I be missing?

Drew

BBcan177

@drewsaur:

@BBcan177:

The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…

When I set this to "3", it wants to run my daily CRON at 1 AM. What might I be missing?

Drew

This depends on what settings you configured for the first cron selection box.

drewsaur

@BBcan177:

@drewsaur:

@BBcan177:

The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…

When I set this to "3", it wants to run my daily CRON at 1 AM. What might I be missing?

Drew

This depends on what settings you configured for the first cron selection box.

It's set to Daily.

BBcan177

I'll check it out…

BBcan177

When you select "Daily or Weekly", you can define the hour in the last selection box "Daily/Weekly start hour"

drewsaur

I hope the attached makes my problem clearer.

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drewsaur

But when I look at my pfBlocker widget, it looks like everything is OK. So it's just a bug with the "Update" panel, I think….

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drewsaur

BBcan177,

Now that I know you are the author of pfBlockerNG, I want to say THANK YOU, and also want to provide you with any information you deem helpful to address this apparent bug - please let me know,

Drew

BBcan177

@drewsaur:

BBcan177,

Now that I know you are the author of pfBlockerNG, I want to say THANK YOU, and also want to provide you with any information you deem helpful to address this apparent bug - please let me know,

Drew

It's actually not a bug ... ;)

The Update tab uses the Cron Hourly setting. The Cron hour setting is used in the cron task.

The Daily/Weekly setting is used to define a specific Alias/Group to use a different hour setting. So even if the Cron setting is defined as "hourly", the "Daily/Weekly hour" can be used to only download an Alias/Group at the "Daily/Weekly" hour setting.

Hope that answers your question.

drewsaur

What I mean by the bug is that "1:30" shows up as the next update time in the update tab…please see my original screenshot.

Thanks again,

Drew

GregTheHun

Sorry for the resurrection,

I seem to be experiencing the same issue, and my cron update won't go past 1 AM, and I'm on pfsense 2.5