Cron Job Help

[Soapm]

Can someone please help me write a Cron job to run on my Tivo?

About every 3rd day around 6am I'd cron to run;

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dbgc-mcp -fg-index

But not until this command has finished;

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dbgc-mcp -fg-gc

So I need them to run in this order;

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dbgc-mcp -fg-gc
dbgc-mcp -fg-index

Please and thanks, I'm not having any luck trying to figure this out.

[dilberts_left_nut]

What's not working?
I'd probably write a small script to call them in series, then call the script from cron.

[Soapm]

The guide database keeps messing up and won't accept new data so these commands fixes the database. So instead of my having to run them manually I would like to have them periodically run themselves.

Script makes sense, would this be something a novice can teach themself to do?

[CwF]

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0 6 * * 0,3 dbgc-mcp -fg-gc && dbgc-mcp -fg-index

might work

[Soapm]

Cool, thanks...

[Soapm]

Turns out, these commands need to run as root after first mounting the drive RW. How does this look?

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# Re-index Guide Database
0 9 * * 0,1,2,4 root /bin/mount -o remount,rw / && root /tvbin/dbgc-mcp -fg-gc && root /tvbin/dbgc-mcp -fg-index && root /bin/mount -o remount,ro /; echo "`date` Guide Indexing Complete" >> /var/log/cronlog-main

Also, anyway to test this command to see if it's working? I see the entry "Guide Indexing Complete" in my cron log but have no clue if they effectively run. Example, all this time I didn't realize the drive has to first be mounted RW so I assumed they were working ok.

[CwF]

Also, anyway to test this command to see if it's working?

If you have a functioning mta, or mail transport agent, and the alias for user to get the cron result mail, then /var/mail/user will contain the results of every cron job.

I use sylpheed to see that mail.

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From: root@domain (Cron Daemon)
To: user@domain
Subject: Cron <user@domain> weather
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:05:02 -0600

Current conditions nice

Subject is the command
Body is the command result

[Soapm]

Also, anyway to test this command to see if it's working?

If you have a functioning mta, or mail transport agent, and the alias for user to get the cron result mail, then /var/mail/user will contain the results of every cron job.

I use sylpheed to see that mail.

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From: root@domain (Cron Daemon)
To: user@domain
Subject: Cron <user@domain> weather
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:05:02 -0600

Current conditions nice

Subject is the command
Body is the command result

Thanks, I didn't have that set up but I think I bot the mail thing working for me now. I will wait to see what I get.