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How to schedule a script (crontab)

AntonioPallua

Hi everybody,

is it possible to schedule a custom script (can't find crontab command from advanced shell) ?

Thanks

--Antonio P.



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  • 0

    +1 and i want start a script for the boot of XG firewall, it's possible ?

    best regards,

    Greg

    - UTM Certified Architect & XG Certified Engineer -

      • 0

        Would be awesome.. I could use this for a scheduled reboot of my XG.. I have an issue where the Cisco IPsec VPN stops working after the firewall has been up for a few weeks and a reboot is all it takes to get it working again, so this could be nice.. Even better would be if the fixed my problem in MR3 or V16

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        • 0

          Hi,

          Cronjob privileges are not provided in XG.

          Thanks

          Sachin Gurung
          Team Lead | Sophos Technical Support
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          • 0 in reply to sachingurung

            Sachin,

            Thanks for your response.

            What does the XG use for scheduling shell scritps? Cron, LaunchD?

            Are there any plans or roadmap to allow for scheduled scripts? Would be great if this could be configured from the WebGUI.

            -Mahdi

            • 0 in reply to MahdiHedhli

              I would like to know this aswell.

              I currently run the UTM, but would like to go for the XG firewall, but i have a script running at startup on my UTM, whis is a "Wake-on-access" script which sends a magicpacket when a certain port is present in the firewall log.

          • 0

            Even if could be useful to schedule script inside the XG for security reason it should be denied to allow to install/import other packages/script than Sophos Official one. You could use XG API integration and interact with XG.

            • 0 in reply to lferrara

              I looked for XML tag, in Appendix E online documentation, to reboot the appliance and can't find anything about it.
              Could you help with it? Do you know the XML to do do this?

              Regards,

              Diogo

              • 0 in reply to Admrede UNIFESO

                In Advanced Shell, this command can be used to display all scheduled Jobs:  timer all:summary -ds nosync

                I am not a ware of any possibility to set your own Scheduled Tasks... I guess even if there is a possibility, they wouldn't be saved persistent on the Firewall.

                Please send me Spam gueselkuebel@sg-utm.also-solutions.ch

                • 0 in reply to HuberChristian

                  Hi Huber,

                  Thanks for your reply. If I found something about it, I'll post here.

                  Regards,

                  Diogo

              • +1

                I'm using an expect script running on my Linux box to reboot the XG nightly ... works well:

                 

                #!/usr/bin/expect -f
                spawn ssh <XG IP> -l admin
                expect "password:"
                send "<Admin Password>\r"
                expect "Select Menu Number \\\[0-7\\\]:"
                send "7\r"
                expect "Shutdown(S/s) or Reboot(R/r) Device  (S/s/R/r):  No (Enter) >"
                send "r\r"
                expect eof
                exit

                • 0 in reply to Vik Patel

                  Hi Vik,

                  Thank you very much. This solution is perfect and works very well for our environment.

                  Best regards,

                  Diogo

                  • 0 in reply to Vik Patel

                    Hi Vik,

                    sorry for the late answer but you don't need to use expect for this - simply use 

                     

                    ssh <XG IP> -l admin /bin/sh reboot

                     

                    If you call directly command /bin/sh it works and you skip the whole menu. If you try it without a reboot, it looks like it doesn't but don't blame yourselves :D It's a shell without prompt - type ls and push ENTER - you see? :)

                    Best regards,

                    Jiri

                    • 0 in reply to JuryA

                      I can get the invisible shell but calling reboot I get 'Operation not permitted'

                      What version are you running? I'm using XG Home SFOS 18.0.1 MR-1-Build396 and logged as admin

                      Thanks,

                      James