How to get crontab and crond running properly?

[Sean Richards]

Hi,

Have built a system using Busybox 1.2. Have used 'make 'defconfig' so 
everything is included. System boots and runs fine but I can't seem to 
get 'crontab' and 'crond' working properly. To start using cron I have 
made the crontab directories with

$ mkdir -p /var/spool/cron/crontabs

Then tried to edit a crontab with

$ crontab -e

This fails with `exec: No such file or directory`. Looking in 
`/var/spool/cron/crontabs` I can see an empty file 'root' and a file 
'cron.update' with the single entry 'root'. Creating an entry by hand 
such as `*/1 * * * * /bin/date > /var/tmp/crontest` does nothing. 
Checking with ps shows crond to be running. I have set a default profile 
in `/etc/profile` with

export SHELL=/bin/ash
export VISUAL=/bin/vi
export EDITOR=/bin/vi
export HOME=/root

Any help getting this setup would be appreciated.

Cheers