Daniel Dalton wrote:
Hi,I want to put a call to my hpodder (podcaster) in a script that runs all the time. So I can have my computer on and when the time hits 7 am or between 7 and 10 am it will podcast.This is because I get better download speeds earlier in the morning.So what script could I add an if statement to that could then just simpley runhpodder update If the time is correct? I heard about crontab. I read man crontab but didn't find much.
try 'man 5 crontab', that will tell you the format of the crontab file For your case, I think the following line should work 0 7 * * * /path/to/script.sh
I did; crontab -e And got a blank file. So if I should use crontab then could someone please send me a sample file? Its ok if it calls my /home/daniel/scripts/hpodder.sh script. I'll just add code in there to check... Thanks for any help, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ d.dalton@iinet.net.au
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