Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at Mostly Solved

2017-09-19 Thread Martin McCormick
Cron was working all along but I fooled myself. The true problem right now is that all the job output such as error messages or anything else that becomes either standard error or standard output is presently vaporizing somewhere rather than being mailed back to me. I also thought I remembered see

Re: Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at

2017-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Somebody is assuming that the only use for a Pi is to run a home theater and that users can't handle the terrifying task of carrying out a trivial edit of a text file. You probably just need to edit /etc/default/cron. If the Pi is not powered up all the time install anacron. -- John Hasler jhas

Re: Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at

2017-09-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, at 14:35, Martin McCormick wrote: > This raspberry Pi is running jessie lite. Raspberry Pi > documentation says that cron and at jobs are disabled by > default. There is a very odd fix recommended by some > documentation in which one edits a file named > > /home/pi/.kod

Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at

2017-09-19 Thread Martin McCormick
This raspberry Pi is running jessie lite. Raspberry Pi documentation says that cron and at jobs are disabled by default. There is a very odd fix recommended by some documentation in which one edits a file named /home/pi/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.raspbmc.settings/settings.xml You s