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--- one_off_reboot [2020/08/28 12:17] – created rs232
+++ one_off_reboot [2023/05/23 19:46] – -condense, formatting hogwild
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-====== One off reboot (or any command) ======
+====== Schedule a One-off Reboot (or any other command) ======
-You might find yourself in the position where you need to e.g. restart your device but you're not able to do so until a certain time e.g. users using Internet connectivity.
+What if you wanted to perform, for example, a restart of your hardware device? You might not want to perform that action until some conditions are met. For example, when users stop needing Internet connectivity.
-A simple workaround is to add a command to the contable to do this for you:
+You might have noticed the option under //Administration///[[admin-sched|Scheduler]] to reboot at a specific time. This is a periodic, permanent setting only. It will be saved in the device's configuration settings. A reboot at 5:00 AM might be executed more frequently than you wish.
-<code>
+A simple solution to this is to configure a reboot to be performed only once. FreshTomato includes a miniature version of the Linux crontable command, called "cru".
+You can arrange the the above by adding a command directly into the crontable.
+ \\
+For example:
+ \\
+<code ->
 cru a reboot-one-off "0 5 * * * /sbin/reboot"
+</code>
+ \\ This command would restart your device at 5:00 AM.
+The standard Unix cron syntax can be found here: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron|cron]]
+This command will take effect on a running device, but would not be saved permanently in the configuration. Thus, after a reboot, the scheduled activity would automatically disappear, which in this case, is the desired result.
+If you need to remove the scheduled activity before it is executed, use the following command:
+ \\
+<code ->
+cru d reboot-one-off
+</code>
+ \\  To verify the schedule, use the "l" (list) parameter to list scheduled cron jobs:
+ \\
+<code ->
+cru l
 </code>
-This command above will restart your device at 5am. The time syntax is the standard unix [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron|cron]] one.
+ \\
-NOTE: this is effective but not saved permanently anywhere in the confi, hence after reboot the sheduled activity will automatically disappear.
+ \\

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