Re: [hobbit] clientlaunch.cfg INTERVALs

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:42, Charles Jones wrote:
> I need to ext script to run every hour, exactly on the hour. Am I
> correct in assuming that if I use "INTERVAL 60m", that this simply
> launches that script every hour from when the hobbit client was started?
>
> It would be nice if, INTERVAL had an extra option to indicated exactly
> when you wanted to launch, maybe even using a similar format to cron, ie:
>
> INTERVAL 00 * * * *   would launch at the top of every hour
> INTERVAL 30 06 * * * would launch at 6:30am daily
>

Is there a reason you don't just run it out of cron? Eg

00 * * * * 
hobbit /path/to/hobbit/home/client/bin/bbcmd /path/to/hobbit/home/client/ext/myscript.sh

in /etc/crontab.


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Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)