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freewun13
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Oct 19, 2018
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Cron Jobs after NVX System Reset

Hi All, When I got my NVX back in 2009 I started playing around with cron jobs to do a few things and they worked fine. I just recently did a system reset and I saved all the text associated with...
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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Oct 22, 2018

    Did you do the apt-get update again (after you modified sources.list)?

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freewun13
Aspirant
Oct 21, 2018

Created a new file as suggested and made it Unix format in the EOL conversion before saving. Copied it to /etc/apt/sources.list successfully and then....

 

NAS:/# apt-get install nano
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package nano

 

I dont seem to be progressing anywhere with this!

 

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 22, 2018

Did you do the apt-get update again (after you modified sources.list)?

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    freewun13
    Aspirant
    Oct 22, 2018

    Nano is all good now....will have another look tomorrow at cron etc and let you know how I go :-)

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    freewun13
    Aspirant
    Oct 23, 2018

    All working :-)

    Thnx heaps for your help Stephen

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    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Oct 24, 2018

    I'm glad I could help :smileyhappy:

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