Originally Posted by scm6079

I found a very interesting hook, it looks like cron (the linux scheduler) is up and running on the pre.


# jobfile for busybox crond, with pre-start commands to create the
# directory and files it wants by default. That there's not 'start
# on' stanza is intentional: it's for development use only. We can
# turn it on later if we need it, e.g. to keep the clock synced. It
# does work.

respawn

exec /usr/sbin/crond -f

pre-start script
mkdir -p /var/spool/cron/crontabs
ln -sf /etc/cron/crontabs/root /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
end script