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Scheduled Reboot - crond and cronjob
Hi,
There is no option for a scheduled restart of the router through the Web Interface, although each router should have this option by default as a weekly restart of any router is almost required.
I have enabled telnet, but how do I enable the crond daemon in busybox? I can telnet into the router, and all the required commands are there such as reboot, crond, so there must be an option for me to add an entry for a cronjob to reboot at a specified time of each week.
Any ideas?
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Found it, it works fine with the unix normal cronjobs.
Example below (reboots at 1am everyday):
01:00 * * * /sbin/reboot
An interesting development. Thanks for sharing. Although, I take exception to the theory that "a weekly restart of any router is almost required". My Orbi has remained on-line for over 100 days several times without problem. It would have gone longer, but I decided to mess around with firmware updates.
If a restart or reboot is needed frequenty, this means there is a problem with the Orbi system or the envrionment or configuration that the system is currently in. It would need to be investigated to see where the real problem is. Scheduled reboots are just covering up the real cause of the problem.
