I need some help with cron

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I have been unable to get cron to run scheduled tasks after a fresh flash. I am using extroot, so not sure if that's playing a role, but I was using that before too. Haven't really needed to schedule any tasks until now, but I have been putting pressure on my ISP (BBB complaint) to provide a set minimum bandwidth, so I need to adjust SQM based on time of day now that they are working toward doing the right thing finally.

what I have tried:

I'm testing with this to make things simple. I have tried different formats with spaces removed etc. but no dice.

*/2 * * * * logger "TEST BOO!!"

I also made sure to start cron and add it to start:

/etc/init.d/cron enable
/etc/init.d/cron start

Have I made a dumb mistake somewhere? I did everything the same as before as far as I can remember :confused:

crond is running, I made sure to check. Also, I am using root user.

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That should work... what is the output of:

ps | grep cron
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root@OpenWrt:~# ps | grep cron
11241 root      1364 S    grep cron
32311 root      1368 S    /usr/sbin/crond -f -c /etc/crontabs -l 5

Edit: Huh... after the 3rd or 4th reboot it started working. I'm more confused than ever, but Ill take it!

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