Hello,

I created a simple little script to do a rescan of the storage adapters on the server, 60 seconds after boot.

I created a file called hbascan.sh and in that file i have this line “sleep 60s;esxcli storage core adapter rescan –all”

I placed this script in the /bin folder on the ESXi host

I edited the “/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root” in here i added “@reboot sh /bin/hbascan.sh” at the end/bottom of the file.

I then killed the Cron job after finding the correct ID

I then edited the “/etc/rc.local/” and added at the end of the file 3 rows with text.

/bin/kill $(cat /var/run/crond.pid)

/bin/echo ‘@reboot sh /bin/hbascan.sh’ >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

/bin/busybox crond

I saved the file and ran the command “sh /sbin/auto-backup.sh”

Problem is that when i reboot the server everything is gone, the script is gone and the changes to root and rc.local is also gone.

I did the edit of the files with winscp as i am not really confident in “vi”

I am not entirely sure what’s wrong, it could be syntax or maybe file rights?

I followed a guide for this online and it’s almost identical to the guide, only i did not provide any path to logs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

/Hyper-lost