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[zigbert]

Version 1.0.2
See main post

- Bugfix: View webpages from About-dialog (thanks to Geoffrey)
- Bugfix: Language detection (rodin.s)

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bump

[don570]

I describe how to backup a pupsave file at a scheduled time
at this page
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=567279#567279

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[don570]

I wrote about using Pschedule with Puppy Backup
HERE

This method will allow the user to back up his favorite folders overnite
on a regular basis.

It's quite simple and it just needs enough hard disk space
for the mirroring to be done completely and keep your
computer on overnite.

An external USB hard drive would be good for this purpose
and they're quite cheap now.

Mirroring of an entire partition to a folder is possible.

Make sure that the mirror folder is initially empty.

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[don570]

Is it possible to filter out crond lines that begin with #
i.e. are obvious comments.

I'm trying to use pschedule with Porteus distribution
and it works surprising well except for all the comments.

I tried the following line to filter them out in
line 13 of func_cron_to_human

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Dear Don
I am sorry to say that I don't have the capacity to support other distros. If someone provide a patch, I will of course consider to add it.


Sigmund

[don570]

It still runs fine in Porteus without any changes.
But only as the root user.

I'm using it with puppy clock.

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[don570]

I was able to fix the problem (in the Porteus distribution)
of comments showing in the list of jobs
with a simple addition of few lines of code
near start of 'pschedule' script so that the cleaning is performed
always at open ( actually the cleaning is only required once
but I didn't want to write complicated code)

The guest user doesn't have this problem fortunately.

[don570]

For those who are adventurous...

There is now Porteus versions of pschedule and puppy clock.

http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=1428&p=10139#p10139

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[zigbert]

Version 1.0.3
See main post

Changelog
- Requires at least gtkdialog-0.8
- Link to cron-list when going straight to cron-editor from external program.
- Bugfix: Do not allow more than one detected langauge. (thanks to shinobar)
- NLS: Added: Show_all_tasks

[miriam]

Hmmm... I'm unable to use pschedule-1.0.3.
The last one I was able to use is 1.0.2.

This new one gives the following error message:

[zigbert]

gtkdialog4 is Barrys link to gtkdialog-0.8.0. I will make it more flexible.

Regarding comments, could you be more specific - an example?
I am a bit blue when it comes to crontab. Only looked at it once - to make pSchedule. The old Gcrontab required gtk1 and we lost that when reaching Puppy 4.


Thank you
Sigmund

[miriam]

Oh, cool. I'll make a link to do that then. Thanks.

In my crontab - where all the date-time data is kept - I like to keep things grouped together by function, and use comments to describe them. It helps me understand later when I'm editing it.

Here is an example:

[don570]

Shinobar puts the following code in his apps.
I have been doing the same recently.
It allows the scripts to run on more distributions

[zigbert]

miriam
Will look at it at next pSchedule cycle


Thank you
Sigmund