Cron jobs are things that you can have set to run at specific times on a Linux system. You simply set up the timing, and tell it what you want to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron James On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Jim Tolbert <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand "cron job", but your description of just a static image > that you can't zoom and pan would be great. Basicially, just one screen > shot after the next, but displayed at a rate you can watch ( not too slow > and not too fast <grin>) > > James Ewen wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jim Tolbert <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Stay tuned.... I am off to try it. >>> >> >> I'm thinking you guys are all going overboard. >> >> It sounds like all Jim needs to do, is to have Xastir save a snapshot >> every 5 minutes, and then have a cron job set up that copies the >> latest image to a storage directory, renaming the file (possibly with >> a timestamp) when it moves it. >> >> This means that the instance of Xastir needs to be focused on the area >> of interest, and that you do not have the capability of zooming in and >> out to see specific areas. >> >> Dynamic playback with the ability to move the map around, zooming in >> on areas of interest during the replay would be cool, but quite a bit >> more work than snapshots and cron jobs. >> >> James >> VE6SRV >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
