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Re: Raspberry Pi Jessie has Broken Cron/at



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/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.raspbmc.settings/settings.xml
> 
> You supposedly edit that file and change a variable which allows
> cron and at jobs to now run. Since unix-like systems have had
> running crons for decades, is there a more conventional way to
> restore this functionality? 

I've no idea, but the obvious question is: is this because 'Jessie lite' 
clearly doesn't have all the features of a full OS?

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.


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