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I've been looking around, and can't find if Ubuntu Touch can run cron.

So my question is: Can it?

Also does it have a standard set of bash utils installed?

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  • Not realy anything on the Internet about it, i've looked everywhere. :( Why don't ubuntu give a list of commands for the phone? :( – Christopher Oct 18 '13 at 00:49

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Cron and many command line tools are available. It is however not possible to safe any changes made to crontab unless you make your system partition writeable.

The implications of making your system partition writeable and how to do it have been discussed in various posts.

A work around has been suggested in this answer. It involves invoking a script with an infinite loop by upstart (from ~/.config/upstart/). If you are going to use the sleep command in this script, you may want to consider that sleep currently behaves different to what you might expect.

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