Scheduling BIG-IP Configuration Backups via the GUI with an iApp

Beginning with BIG-IP version 11, the idea of templates has not only changed in amazing and powerful ways, it has been extended to be far more than just templates.  The replacement for templates is c...
Published Aug 16, 2011
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gkczieg_32882
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Sep 20, 2012
I've found that in 11.2 you can run the script on the CLI by doing a

 

 

/bin/bash

 

 

in front of the exact command.

 

 

 

where I'm stuck is that despite this file existing in the /etc/cron.d folder the script is not running at all. If I remember correctly (for linux anyway) this is just a holder that other cron folders will call. So I created a symbolic link to the cron.daily folder and set it to run, but it never fired off...