[Dxspider-support] Questions

[Ian A Bultitude]

Hi Colin and others,
I fully sympathise with you.
I too am not into programming and find that the man pages/docs etc very
difficult to understand and often do not supply me with the answers I am
looking for. Too often when I ask for help on forums I just get referred to
the man pages/docs with no other help.
As a result I do not usually contribute to such forums but just watch them
in the hope that I may learn something. Sometimes I do.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org
[mailto:dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org]On Behalf Of Colin Harris
Sent: 04 May 2002 18:58
To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Questions


Hi Charlie and others.

                    Well I hadn't read /spider/html/cron.html but I had a
printed copy of it anyway so that file told me nothing new. The key factor
shown in that file is the comment "Commands are actually small snippets of
Perl". The  various suggested commands have all been used/tried and I have
"invented" one or two of my own but as  said I do NOT know any programming
language and that includes Perl. Do I really HAVE to learn Perl in order to
make full use of crontab in a "Spider" context ?  As I  am more often up to
my armpits in engine oil and muck while renovating a couple of M/cycles and
also chancing my arm ( sort of death wish 2 ) working "live" on a linear
with 3.5 KV floating around there isn't a lot of time to venture down
programming paths. It would seem more than possible to engineer
auto-alternate inter-cluster connects but /spider/html/cron.html doesn't
provide the relevant information as far as I can see when "grouping"
sequential commands with "lockout safety features" are required.

I cannot be the only one in this technological bracket where programming is
concerned , surely !

- Regards Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: charlie carroll <k1xx at ptcnh.net>
To: <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Questions


> Colin:
> Take a look at the document named cron.html located in the /spider/html
> directory.  See if that answers some of your questions.
>
> 73 charlie, k1xx
>
>
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