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--- one_off_reboot [2021/08/22 23:25] – hogwild
+++ one_off_reboot [2024/10/31 21:41] (current) – hogwild
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-====== One-off reboot (or any command really...) ======
+====== Schedule a One-off Reboot (or any other command) ======
-What if you want to perform, for example, a restart of your hardware device. However, you might not be able to perform that action until a certain time, such as when users stop needing Internet connectivity, or until some other condition is met.
+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.
-You might have noticed there is an option under Administration/Scheduler to reboot at a specific time. However this is a periodic setting only, and will be saved in the device configuration. Thus, a reboot at 5:00 AM might be executed more frequently than you might want.
+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 often than you wish.
-A simple solution to this is to have a reboot performed once only. This can be done by adding a command directly into the contable.
+A simple solution 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 ->
+cru a reboot-one-off "0 5 * * * /sbin/reboot"
 </code>
+ \\ This command would restart your device at 5:00 AM.
+It would take effect on a running device, but wouldn't be saved permanently in the configuration. Thus, after a reboot, the scheduled activity would automatically disappear, which in this case, is the desired result.
  \\
-This command would restart your device at 5:00 AM. The standard Unix cron syntax is used here: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron|cron]] .
-NOTE: this is effective on a running device but not saved permanently anywhere in the configuration. Thus, after reboot the scheduled activity will automatically disappear, which is what is wanted in this case.
+The standard Unix cron syntax can be found here: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron|cron]]
-If you need to remove the scheduled activity for whatever reason, before it is executed, just use the following command:
+ \\
-<code>
-cru d reboot-one-off
+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:
  \\
-to verify use:
-<code>
+<code ->
 cru l
 </code>
+ \\
+ \\
+ \\

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