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bind time , with multiple values

2010-01-05T15:55:43-04:00

The following code executes at minute 00 for every 'ODD' hour by testing if the number of hours has a remainder after dividing by 2 (hour mod 2). The result can only be 1 (true) or 0 (false)

Code:

bind TIME - "00 * * * *" pTimeProcproc pTimeProc {minute hour day month year} {  if {$hour % 2} {    # code here  }}

Statistics: Posted by arfer — Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:55 pm

bind time , with multiple values

2010-01-05T14:18:02-04:00

The time binding simply does a glob-style matching of a fixed string being 'minute hour day-of-month month year' (of the curent time) against the mask provided in the binding. As such, you cannot use the more advanced syntax of crontab's.

Thanks.

Another idea came to mind.
What would happen if I simply created more binds?
as in:
bind time - "0 01 * * *" do_announce
bind time - "0 03 * * *" do_announce
bind time - "0 05 * * *" do_announce
.
.
.
and so on.

Would that do it?
Would the do_annouce procedure run at 1:00am, 3:00am, 5:00am, and so on?

You could, however, do additional checks on the hour within the triggered code. Ie: for every n:th hour, use the modulus function or so..

I don't get it, yet.
Can you elaborate a bit?

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by willyw — Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:18 pm

bind time , with multiple values

2010-01-01T15:41:52-04:00

The time binding simply does a glob-style matching of a fixed string being 'minute hour day-of-month month year' (of the curent time) against the mask provided in the binding. As such, you cannot use the more advanced syntax of crontab's.

You could, however, do additional checks on the hour within the triggered code. Ie: for every n:th hour, use the modulus function or so..

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Fri Jan 01, 2010 3:41 pm

bind time , with multiple values

2010-01-01T15:00:04-04:00

Hello,

Does bind time accept values the same way as crontab does?

Here's what I'm doing:
I have a small script I drew up, and it uses :
bind time - "01 * * * *" do_announce
just fine. The procedure does an announcement in a channel, once per hour.

I'd like to experiment with making that once every other hour.
And other variations too.
Perhaps once every 3 or 4 hours.
Whatever... until I get it like I like it.

And I wondered if I could use entries like I found here:
http://ss64.com/bash/crontab.html
Would it be?:
bind time - "* 01,03,05,07,09,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * *" do_announce

If not, ...if bind time does not accept that, how would I go about it?

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by willyw — Fri Jan 01, 2010 3:00 pm