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cru enables you to check/add/delete cron job on your Asuswrt Merline Wifi Router. Because Asuswrt does not save all the cron job by the limited storage, you should add cron job at /jfss/scripts/init-start, so the cronjob will be done as designed.




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Basic functions of cron job in Asuswrt Merlin Wifi Router

Add a new cron job

Code Block
cru a {id} min hour day moth week command

Where:

  • id – Unique ID for each cron job
  • min – Minute (0-59)
  • hour – Hours (0-23)
  • day – Day (0-31)
  • month – Month (0-12 [12 is December])
  • week – Day of the week(0-7 [7 or 0 is Sunday])
  • command – Script or command name to schedule.

List cron jobs

Code Block
cru l

Delete cron job

Code Block
cru d {id}


Example of Cron Job

Let us add cron job on Asuswrt Merlin Wifi router to ping gateway every 1 hour, run:

Code Block
cru a pinggw "0 * * * * /bin/ping -c 10 -q 192.168.2.254"


Above cron job will run /bin/ping command that sends only 10 pings and only display output at start.
To list current jobs run:

Code Block
cru l


To delete current jobs run:

Code Block
cru d pinggw


Verify it:

Code Block
cru l


Create/Edit a script called services-start


Type the following command

Code Block
vi /jffs/scripts/init-start


And add your command like below. Below is the case to update DNS every 10mins

Code Block
cru a ddns "*/10 * * * * /usr/sbin/wget -O /dev/null 'http://ddns.dnszi.com/set.html?user=<your_id>&auth=<your_auth>&domain=<your_domain>&record=<your_record>'"


Reboot Asuswrt every 12 hours

Code Block
cru a reboot12 "0 */12 * * * /sbin/reboot"


Reboot Asuswrt at 5:30 AM

Code Block
cru a reboot0530 "30 5 * * * /sbin/reboot"


To enable boot time support for /jffs/scripts/, you should check following options: