On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:19:40PM -0400, Robert Bliss wrote: > I like the idea of kicking off the recording process with an "at" job. > cron jobs that run every minute make me nervous. Along these lines what > I would like to see is the ability to schedule the same program on a
As far as I can recall; atd works the cron way on Solaris, or at least it used to... > weekly basis ie record program x every Saturday night. I could easily > add that in a dumb way to my tcl record daemon but it would be a lot > cooler if a new daemon that ran once every 24 hours say could do it based > on the show name and the TV.xml listings. Actually a cron job that ran That's also something that exists in freevo in some way... there is a script called "tvgrep" (which may need some modifications) which you can use to output lines for the schedule... tvgrep -schedule "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" >> /tmp/freevo_record.lst would work. It uses the pickle file so it's pretty quick. > every Sunday night at midnight could update TV.xml with the weeks listings > and then schedule the list of requested weekly shows. This would take a > some thought for those people that reboot their systems a lot but would > work for me as I only reboot every half year or new RH release whichever > comes first. I do that in cron on Sundays at 3am... Aubin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
