[SOLVED] crontab @reboot command in LE

fxfxfx · March 15, 2017 at 12:25 PM

I need to run iptables-restore at boot.

I've tried setting up crontab with:

Code

@reboot /usr/sbin/iptables-restore /storage/fwrules.v4

which didn't work, although '/usr/sbin/iptables-restore /storage/fwrules.v4' in the terminal works as intended.

I also tried running this as a simple, executable shell script

Bash

#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/iptables-restore /storage/fwrules.v4

which works - when run from terminal. But not when called @reboot via crontab.

Which leads me to wonder if @reboot is functional in LE (7) - and how I can accomplish restoring iptables rules on boot?

Thanks in advance, guys and gals.

**vpeter** · March 15, 2017 at 1:10 PM

@things are not supported in cron from busybox. You can run whatever you like at boot from autostart.sh file or you can create a service something like this.

fxfxfx · March 15, 2017 at 1:28 PM

Quote from vpeter

run whatever you like at boot from autostart.sh

Neat! Perfectly solved my issue.

Thanks a heap.