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doshbass
doshbass
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March 27, 2007
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Forticron

  • March 27, 2007
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Fortigates clearly have a CRON type mechanism in them for scheduled updates. And the service forticron runs on teh machine. I wonder if we can get into it to add our own stuff. Jon

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    Anonymous_User
    Contributor III
    March 27, 2007
    Fortigate are linux based, as you already know. A more interesting question should be: - Does Running third party software on fortigate break the warranty? Vink
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    doshbassAuthor
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    March 28, 2007
    Actually, I wasn' t thinking about running our own stuff, this kicked off from a qustion regarding automating config backups, but access to CRON could enable all sorts of houskeeping jobs.
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    Anonymous_User
    Contributor III
    March 31, 2007
    The GPL source should be available somewhere... Although to be perfectly honest I' m going to say that there' s really not too much extra I could want out of the box. But the FG60 is just a compact flash card so easy to re-flash if you built your own image.
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    Anonymous_User
    Contributor III
    April 5, 2007
    doshbass, check the knowledge base. You can use SCP to get backups off of a FGT. Just cron the SCP on some remote system and lean back...
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    doshbassAuthor
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    April 5, 2007
    Hi Zedd This was a generic sort of thing really, backups was just a suggestion. Jon
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