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Re: Run a proc between specific times/days

2010-12-27T01:08:29-04:00

strftime seems to be working great for the most part. Sometimes i have to restart the bot completely vs a .rehash but that may or may not be related to the code below, and more related to numerous mysql connections, not sure yet. But if anyone sees anything glaringly wrong w the below please let me know

the two instances im using for this are:

Code:

if { [strftime %u] >= 1 && [strftime %u] <= 6 && [strftime %H%M] >= 930 && [strftime %H%M] <= 1700 &&    [scan $min %d] % 5 == 0} {

and

Code:

if { [strftime %u] == 7 && [strftime %H] >= 18 && [scan $min %d] % 15 == 0 ||     [strftime %u] >= 1 && [strftime %u] <= 5 && [scan $min %d] % 15 == 0} {

also what nml375 posted that strftime %H before noon will report back "01" or "02" for example vs just "1" or "2". However if you try to evaluate:

if { [strftime %H] >= 08 }

the bot will error and say this looks like an octal number just as nml375 mentioned.

** and i just realized that the first block of code i posted was NOT running before 10am today so the times will HAVE to be evaluated in the manner that nml375 posted as tcl/eggdrop aparently does not view 01 to == 1
thats a good finding

but the cron method if probably the the best way to run this proc m-f and ill look at the times seperately as mentioned in his post for simplicity

the second block of code i posted works fine since it only evaluates the hour if its greater than 2 digits anyway. cron may not work for this because it needs to look at different times if its a sunday

Statistics: Posted by adi2247 — Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:08 am

Run a proc between specific times/days

2010-12-23T15:15:22-04:00

ty all for the sugestions! i will try some of these and report back!

Statistics: Posted by adi2247 — Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:15 pm

Run a proc between specific times/days

2010-12-22T16:40:04-04:00

Yeah, this was a mistake indeed. It's fixed in 1.8 cvs: http://cvs.eggheads.org/viewvc/eggdrop1 ... 1.2&r2=1.3

Statistics: Posted by pseudo — Wed Dec 22, 2010 4:40 pm

Run a proc between specific times/days

2010-12-22T14:25:04-04:00

username:
If you instead open the tcl-commands.doc that's included with the source, you'll read instead of , so it's my best guess they've made a typo with the html-docs.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:25 pm

Run a proc between specific times/days

2010-12-22T04:28:56-04:00

nml375, but in http://www.eggheads.org/support/egghtml ... html#binda there is other arguments.

bind cron
proc-name

And in bind description I read:

...It can contain up to five fields: minute, hour, day, month, weekday; delimited by whitespace....

So, this is mistake in this line proc-name ?

Statistics: Posted by username — Wed Dec 22, 2010 4:28 am

Run a proc between specific times/days

2010-12-21T15:45:44-04:00

If you've got the 1.6.20 version of eggdrop, then you could use the new "CRON" binding rather than the "TIME" binding. In that case, the code would look like this:

Code:

bind cron - {*/5 * * * 1-5} timerproc timer {minute hour day month weekday} {  #code goes here}

If you'd rather use the "TIME" binding, and parse the various arguments passed to the proc as integers, you'll have to remember that single-digit numbers are zero-prefixed, causing 08 and 09 to be treated as invalid octal numbers. This is fairly easy to solve though, using something like this:

Code:

bind time - * someproc {min hour day month year} {  set min [string trimleft $min 0]  set hour [string trimleft $hour 0]  if {$min % 5 == 0 && $hour >= 9 && $hour <= 17} {...

This won't solve the issue of weekdays though, so you'll have to resort to strftime for this, as suggested by willyw

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:45 pm

Re: Run a proc between specific times/days

2010-12-21T13:08:29-04:00

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im not sure how to equate day of the week to a numeric value to check against either.

How about strftime ?
Try strftime %u

Ref:
http://www.eggheads.org/support/egghtml ... mands.html
and find strftime

Also:
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl3_strftime.htm

Is the .tcl command enabled on your bot? If so, you can do some quick experiments with the strftime command.
Example:

Code:

 .tcl strftime %u Tcl: 2

(Today is Tuesday, and with strftime Monday =1)

Statistics: Posted by willyw — Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:08 pm

Run a proc between specific times/days

2010-12-21T05:41:12-04:00

currently i have a proc similar to this:

Code:

proc timer {min args} {  if {[scan $min %d] % 5 == 0} {   #Code goes here    } }

which runs a proc every 5 min, but i would also like to have it check to see if the system time is between 9am-5pm mon-fri before running.

i think it may be somthing similar to

Code:

proc timer {min args} { set systemTime [clock seconds] if { [clock format $systemTime -format %H] >= 9 && [clock format $systemTime -format %H] <= 17 && [scan $min %d] % 5 == 0} {   #code goes here    } }

which i would think would work but doesnt seem to be, inaddition im not sure how to equate day of the week to a numeric value to check against either. Anyhelp is greatly apreciated.

using this for reference http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/tutorial/Tcl41.html

Statistics: Posted by adi2247 — Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:41 am