Cron in GUI?

[khb]

Various reddits and such mention cron in the GUI of pfsense (perhaps years old, I didn’t note the dates). Using the GUI/pkg manager to add cron did add cron (verified from CLI) but didn’t create a GUI entry. Is this expected behavior? If so, why?

[SteveITS]

@khb install the pfSense package from the GUI.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/list.html

[khb]

@SteveITS that’s what I did. I didn’t pkg install from the command line :>

Installed packages:
…

Package Dependencies:
  php83-8.3.12    aws-sdk-php-3.273.3 	 
Cron	sysutils	0.3.8_5	The cron utility is used to manage commands on a schedule.	 
darkstat	net-mgmt	3.1.4	darkstat is a network statistics gatherer. It's a packet sniffer that runs as a background process on a cable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of statistics about network usage, and serves them over HTTP.

Package Dependencies:
  darkstat-3.0.721_1 ```

[tedquade]

@khb Go to

Services / Cron / Add

Ted

[khb]

@tedquade bingo. Thanks. Missed spotting that somehow!

[SteveITS]

@khb ah misread, sorry