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knick · 06-16-2013, 02:59 PM

Hi. I'm trying to get a weather mod going on my Kindle 4, as seen here:
http://www.shatteredhaven.com/2012/1...r-display.html

I did the jailbreak, installed kite, and put the two weather scripts on it (display-weather.sh & init-weather.sh). When I run init-weather, the Kindle successfully pulls the weather image from a little server program running on my Win7 machine. So far so good.

Now I'm stuck on the last step of getting the script to autorun every 5 mins or so. The Kindle doesn't seem to have cron.

I SSH into the Kindle while it's hooked up to the computer and in diagnostic mode (is this the correct way of doing it?). But /etc/crontab/root wasn't there, and trying to restart cron with "/etc/init.d/cron restart" says that cron isn't found.

Just to note.. I briefly installed/used Duokan and librerator, before restoring to factory defaults and then doing this weather mod. Could that have caused cron to go missing? Any way to get cron back? I'm very noobish with Linux.

06-16-2013, 02:59 PM	#1
knick Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2013 Device: Kindle 4	weather mod; missing cron on Kindle 4 Hi. I'm trying to get a weather mod going on my Kindle 4, as seen here: http://www.shatteredhaven.com/2012/1...r-display.html I did the jailbreak, installed kite, and put the two weather scripts on it (display-weather.sh & init-weather.sh). When I run init-weather, the Kindle successfully pulls the weather image from a little server program running on my Win7 machine. So far so good. Now I'm stuck on the last step of getting the script to autorun every 5 mins or so. The Kindle doesn't seem to have cron. I SSH into the Kindle while it's hooked up to the computer and in diagnostic mode (is this the correct way of doing it?). But /etc/crontab/root wasn't there, and trying to restart cron with "/etc/init.d/cron restart" says that cron isn't found. Just to note.. I briefly installed/used Duokan and librerator, before restoring to factory defaults and then doing this weather mod. Could that have caused cron to go missing? Any way to get cron back? I'm very noobish with Linux. Last edited by knick; 06-21-2013 at 06:48 PM.