General discussion • Re: cron does not work as expected

Besides, rebooting every five minutes because of a problem with one program is a really stupid thing to do on a Pi. It might make sense on a microcontroller but not on a full Linux OS.

Either fix the problem code or have cron stop and restart it periodically rather than reboot the entire thing.

For weeks I have been complaining in the forums about Motion's inexplicable behavior. So far, no one has been able to help me. Specifically, the watchdog timeout only occurs outside.

You are right with your objection about reboot. I did not know This solved the problem in a less ugly way.

btw. It is a Pi 5/Bookworm

You mention syslog in "Cron - A Beginner's Guide". This file does not seem to exist on Bookworm.

Statistics: Posted by swe — Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:02 am

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