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From: MacGregor, Dianne
Sent: Thu 3/04/2008 1:36 PM
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Subject: Downloading scheduling

Hi Glen

 

Could you please advise me whether there is a way to schedule Alltalk to look for downloads twice a day on the Apple version rather than hourly

 

Regards Dianne

Tweed Heads 

 

 

Dear Di,

 

Ah, I see this Managing the Scheduler section is no longer in the notes!

 

But essentially, you just want to alter the crontab settings.  This is a bit UNIXy and requires some knowledge

 

In Terminal (Applicationsàtoolsàterminal)

At the prompt type

 

crontab –e

 

This evokes the GOOD OLD vi Unix editor.

 

You will see

 

15 8,9,11,13,15,17,18 * * mon-sat  /Users……

 

The 8,9,11… etc is the hour at which the service will run. The 15 at the front is the number of minutes past the hour

 

So to run it say at 15 mins past 10am and 5pm , change the entry to be

15 10,17 * * mon-sat /Users…….

 

To use the editor, use the arrow keys to move the hours section.  Use the X key to remove letters on the line, use I to go to insert mode to add more.

 

After making your changes press

<ESCAPE><COLON>

Should put your cursor at the bottom of the screen.

Then type

wq

 

(stands for write, quit)

 

The crontab should then be updated.  If you make a mistake, the crontab will complain bitterly  and tell you to get it right!

 

 



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