Troble setting cron
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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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The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…
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Thanks, now I see the light! There doesn't seem to be a 'weekly' in the list.
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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
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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.
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I'll check it out…
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When you select "Daily or Weekly", you can define the hour in the last selection box "Daily/Weekly start hour"
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I hope the attached makes my problem clearer.
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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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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
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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.
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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
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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
