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


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