Mods Run crond from init.d [Root only]

[Jaman42]

Hi,
I have a Radxa Rock on which I am running Android 4.2.2, I am trying to get cron working to schedule some scripts to run.

I have got init.d working to launch a script at boot but I can't seem to be able to start crond from it. I have installed SSHDroid on the unit so I can putty to it, if I putty to the device and run

crond -b -c /data/crontab

cron starts and everything is running fine.

But when I add

crond -b -c /data/crontab

to my init.d script nothing happends and I can't seem to figure out why.

This is the full contents of my init.d script:

#!/system/bin/sh
# Init.d test

if [ -e /data/Test.log ]; then
rm /data/Test.log
fi

echo  Init.d is indeed working !!! >> /data/Test.log
echo "excecuted on $(date +"%d-%m-%Y %r" )" >> /data/Test.log

crond -b -c /data/crontab

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I tried updating and using the full path to the crond but that wasn't working either. Then I realized that it wasn't working via putty either with full path. My conclusion was that I was using the wrong path, found out I could run "which crond" to find the correct path which was completely different. In my case "/data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/home/.bin/crond -b -c /data/crontab" was the full path and now it's working

 

[Sepero]

I would record the $PATH at time of execution to verify it.

echo "$PATH" > /data/path.txt