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On 14 Jan John Stokes asked how to enter cron instructions in the analog.cfg file for analog5.22 that would run analog at 11:59 PM each day for the access_log of the day just completed - instead of, as heretofore, manually entering
FROM yymmdd
TO yymmddupdated, for each day prior to 11:59 PM.
On 15 Jan Duke Hillard suggested:
The following works, but you would need to enter it manually daily.
where y=year, m=month, d=date, h=hour, m=minute
00 18 * * * ~/usr/local/analog/analog +Fyymmdd:hhmm +Tyymmdd:hhmm or 00 18 * * * ~/usr/local/analog/analog +Fyymmdd +Tyymmdd
(I'm already getting the same result updating daily the simpler yymmdd in both FROM and TO at 6 PM, which self starts at each following 11:59 PM/)
It might be better to modify the daily 11:59 p.m. cron job one time.
59 23 * * * ~/usr/local/analog/analog +F-00-00-00 or 59 23 * * * ~/usr/local/analog/analog +F-00-00-00:-24+01
(As mentioned, I have no cron job at present - as the daily 6 PM yymmdd analog.cfg entries self-start at the following 11:59 PM.)
The following area in the documentation contains useful information: http://www.analog.cx/docs/include.html#FROMTO
After reading the suggested section of the Include html doc, I decided - for consistency with my VPS crons for other scripts - simply to enter the cron
* * * 23 59 ~/usr/local/analog/analog
in cronjobs
and then in analog.cfg
FROM -00-00-00:-24+01 # TO
(following the example in Include.html of how "each of the components can be preceded by + or - to represent time relative to the time at which the program was invoked...allowing constructions like
FROM -00-00-00:-06+01 # statistics for the last 6 hours )
Is there somewhere a fuller explanation, with examples, of how the + and - entries work? It seems to me that, as an alternative, some sort of + and - FROM and TO entries could be made, which, without daily updates, would be self-starting, like daily yymmdd entries - without accompanying cron job entry.
Thanks, all.
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