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How to schedule a script (crontab)

AntonioPallua over 8 years ago

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 GregoryOrliange over 8 years ago

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

best regards,

Greg

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0 MahdiHedhli over 8 years ago

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0 KennethHolmqvist over 8 years ago

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 sachingurung over 8 years ago

Hi,

Cronjob privileges are not provided in XG.

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0 MahdiHedhli over 8 years ago 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
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0 HeineMadsen1 over 8 years ago 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.
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0 lferrara over 8 years ago

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.
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0 Admrede UNIFESO over 7 years ago 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
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0 HuberChristian over 7 years ago 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
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0 Admrede UNIFESO over 7 years ago in reply to HuberChristian

Hi Huber,

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

Regards,

Diogo
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