Reboot and check file system as scheduled task

[cwensink (Chris Wensink)]

I would like to set up a task to restart and check the file system of my IPFire once per week, or once per month. What is the correct procedure for setting that up? Connection Scheduler only has a “reboot” option, I want to check the file system.

Is this done with a cron job, and if so, what’s the shell command to set it up like the GUI has it?

Chris

[bonnietwin (Adolf Belka)]

A cron job would be the best way to do that. IPFire uses fcron. However the fcrontab is likely to be overwritten when aa CU is carried out if fcron is updated.
See this wiki link for how to create a separate user with its own fcrontab that will not be overwritten.
https://wiki.ipfire.org/pkgs/fcron

[jon]

If you do not want a very specific time, it might be easier to place the script in the /etc/fcron.weekly or the /etc/fcron.monthly directory.

Is there a crontab addon

Currently it can not be done from the wui so someone would have to write the code to make that happen. The core team of developers in the IPFire project is small and they spend their time doing work on the next generation IPFire3.x and fixing bugs and overcoming new security issues identified on the internet for IPFire2.x Other contributors to IPFire who have the capabilities and are willing to do the coding work are always welcome and the wiki provides information on joining the development m…

Weekly → place script in /etc/fcron.weekly directory

At 02:47 on Monday. See: https://crontab.guru/#47_2_*_*_1

This is already part of fcrontab.

Monthly → place script in /etc/fcron.monthly directory

At 03:52 on 1st day of the month. See: https://crontab.guru/#52_3_1_*_*

This is already part of fcrontab.

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EDIT: This should be the right command:

/sbin/shutdown -F -r now

but you will need to add it to a small script.