Run custom shell script (not at boot time)

[cnd.fflv]

Hi guys.

I was trying to search the answer but only found how to run script at the boot.

Here is my question.

I want some maintenance run at night (2am), when not much is going on on my LAN.

I wrote the script, made it executable, add new cron job using crontab -e…

But nothing went through. I tried to run script manually from CLI, and it didn't go.

How can I do this?

Thanks.

[NOYB]

Not really much info provided to go on so I’ll attempt being clairvoyant.

Try this

login as root
cd to script directory
chmod 777 script_file
./script_file

If that does not work then something is probably wrong with the script.  Make a simple script to echo something out to the console and see if that will run.

[cnd.fflv]

nope…. :(

doesn't work. See attached screen shot.

EDIT:

works. It was my mistake. I put !/bin/bash instead of /bin/sh...

Thanks for reply.

All the best.


[phil.davis]

Your edits to crontab will get lost when you reboot - pfSense rebuilds all that from its config at boot time. Install the cron package and use that to add your cron job. It will survive reboot.

[cnd.fflv]

Thanks!

I did as you advised.

All the best.