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jake_take · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Japan

In Pschedule main window the tasks are shown in commands and time, so we must edit or delete by judging from commands and time. It may cause mistakes. If you want to see the task name in the main window, in stead of command-lines, you should enter the commands with "#" followed by task names. For example,

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5926 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

jake_take
Thanks for your input!!!!!!

I have to deal with this later. There are just so many balls in the air right now.

Sigmund

jake_take · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Japan

If you restart X in a session, you will find 2 "cronds" running. One is of before restarting X, and another is of after restarting. This bug is caused by the command line "crond" in /root/.xinitrc. To fix this, this part in /root/.xinitrc should be "killall -q crond; crond" and the line 24 in /usr/local/pschedule/pschedule should be modified as below.

echo "killall -q crond; crond" >> $HOME/.xinitrc

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5926 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

jake_take
I think we better make a cron-check-script in /root/Startup like the one in Pbackup.

Sigmund

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5926 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 0.7
See main post

jake_take has improved the general handling of tasks.
Many thanks for his effort.

Changelog
- Give each task a nr./name. (thanks to jake_take)
- Do not center windows on screen.
- The 'next run' entry in add-task-window is now visible.
- Bugfix: Delete only selected task if similar command. (thanks to jake_take)
- Bugfix: Avoid several instances of cron. (thanks to jake_take)
- Bugfix: Thursday failed in cron-builder-window.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5926 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 0.8
See main post

- start pschedule with predefined task from terminal. (thanks to mcewanw)

Pschedule -h for usage.

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 2351 Location: New Zealand

Thank you for updating Pschedule.

Unfortunately, whilst now modifying precord to utilise the new facility, I have come across a small but critical error which prevents the passing of commands or tasknames which contain embedded quotes, and/or paths or filenames which contain spaces or multiple spaces of various lengths.

For example, I need to be able to pass a command such as:

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5926 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

mcewanw
Fixed in 0.8-1
Thank you

Sigmund

disciple · Posted: Sat 06 Mar 2010, 18:10 Post subject:

It would be nice if there was a button to enable/disable a task. I think this can be done just by commenting it with a # in the crontab, although making the gui handle the disabled tasks would be a bit more difficult Smile

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1897 Location: South Australia

Zigbert is there any way to start a program like ffmpeg at a predetermined time then stop it at a later predetermined time.

I would like to use Pschedule with ffmpeg to record shows on TV.

I assume you would setup a second cron job but how do you reference the original terminal window and job?

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5926 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

smokey01
This should kill ongoing ffmpeg processes

Frank Cox · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381

I loaded version .08 but it still says .07 even after a reboot.
I am running 431.
Also what would the command be if I wanted pschedule to play a song say in sda1/documents/my music/some-tune.mp3 ?

TIA

disciple · Posted: Sun 19 Sep 2010, 07:34 Post subject:

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5926 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5926 Location: Valåmoen, Norway