On 12/13/18 8:17 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:43:56PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
OK....
I have had problems in the past with crontab parsing a command. Would I use:
@reboot root echo none | tee /sys/class/leds/blue:heartbeat/trigger
?
Or do I have to make a script and run that?
Since this is a crontab, you can use normal shell redirection:
@reboot root echo none > /sys/class/leds/blue:heartbeat/trigger
in a file in /etc/cron.d/
The 'echo foo | sudo tee' thing is what you do for people who are using sudo to echo output into a file -- so often people think they can do 'sudo echo none > /some/path' and will be surprised it doesn't work.
Thanks. This is my first encounter with 'tee'. I guess because I rarely use sudo, and work in su if I need to do root things.
I still think it makes sense to create it as a systemd unit.
Seems the better, long-term way to go, but right now I don't have time to learn enough about making systemd unit files.
But I think even the rc.local hack should work if you make it executable. At least that's what the header of rc.local says.
Regards, Simon