Cron does not accept concatenated commands

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello,

What am I doing wrong here.

@reboot sleep 120

does run as expected, but even

@reboot sleep 120 && sleep 120

does not. Same if I put any else second command.

I also tried ";" in stead of "&&" with same result.

How can I make it work?

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Try this:

@reboot { sleep 120 && sleep 120; }

Note the ; } at the end

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are you sure?
If i remember correctly busybox's crond does not know @reboot.
You can try /etc/rc.local

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putting reboot in rc.local is probably a very bad idea :slight_smile:

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I ment putting the command which you will run on boot in /etc/rc.local...

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You are right. @reboot seems not to work at all. Even though it is documented.

Using rc.local sees to work.

Thanks everyone.

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But also note the warning in the documentation below the table of shortcuts: