(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Version 1.0.2
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- Bugfix: View webpages from About-dialog (thanks to Geoffrey)
- Bugfix: Language detection (rodin.s)

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I describe how to backup a pupsave file at a scheduled time
at this page
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 279#567279

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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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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
However I found that Delete key wouldn't work which is
important to me.

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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

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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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.
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For those who are adventurous...

There is now Porteus versions of pschedule and puppy clock.

http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 139#p10139

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Version 1.0.3
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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

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:I have gtkdialog-0.8.0, but not gtkdialog4 (in fact I have been getting quite a collection gtkdialog, gtkdialog2, gtkdialog3-thunor, gtkdialog-0.8.0, gtkdialog3, gtkdialog-splash, where gtkdialog is actually a link to gtkdialog-0.8.0).

Can I make a request? It would be lovely if pschedule would ignore (but still display) comments. I use comments a lot in my crontab to remind me what stuff is for.

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

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:A line beginning with a '#' is a comment line and I use it to separate all my non-repeating items from all the other items that do repeat. This is important because if you look at the two entries in my example above you'll notice the date part is exactly the same, but I want to remove one later and not the other, because this year I'm going to the birthday party on the day after the twins' actual birthday, whereas other years the party would be on another day even though the birthday itself doesn't change.

I add comments to my crontab file to help me remember other things while reading or editing it too. Blank lines are also important to help format the file in a human-readable way.

Another way I use comments is to stop cron reading expired entries. I don't delete them because it is often interesting and useful to be able to look back on obsolete entries.

Oh, and I should mention that 'alert' is just a simple shell script I made that plays a bell sound 5 times and puts a small dialog box up on the screen with a message in it. It is a convenient way of notifying myself of things.

Shinobar puts the following code in his apps.
I have been doing the same recently.
It allows the scripts to run on more distributions
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miriam
Will look at it at next pSchedule cycle


Thank you
Sigmund

don570 wrote:Shinobar puts the following code in his apps.
I have been doing the same recently.
It allows the scripts to run on more distributions

Code: Select all

for P in gtkdialog4 gtkdialog3 gtkdialog; do
    GTKDIALOG=$(which $P) && break
  done
  

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Yes, I see. I will improve this, but the above code will not work as gtkdialog3 will not run pSchedule and I would switch the order to run gtkdialog if available. I assume that gtkdialog will be the latest.


Sigmund

Version 1.1.0
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Changelog
- NLS is supported by gettext.
- Simplified edit/add gui.
- Improved scaling og gui.
- Code cleanup.
- Skip lines in crontab that starts with #. (thanks to miriam)
- gtkdialog is now only supported executable - no gtkdialog(x).

Version 1.1.1
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Changelog
- Updated 'About' box.
- Bugfix: Minor syntax changes.

Version 1.1.2
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Changelog
- new switch -n (set new task)


the -n switch is used by pMusic 3.1

When I installed version 1.1.1 in the distro Carolina
I got a strange warning that 'cron gtkdialog' was needed.

It seems to be working allright. I'll continue to test with version 1.1.2.


EDIT: other apps are showing the same warning when
I install in Carolina so it must be a bug in Carloina





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