[Dxspider-support] Crontab?

[David Spoelstra]

Something to go in the new manual!
-David, N9KT

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 3:55 AM Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Erm...
>
> I'm sorry that you should be confused by the name 'crontab' into
> thinking that it is the real thing. It is a cutdown implementation that
> I made in perl, many years ago. I am afraid you will need to give a
> comma separated list of hours:
>
> 42 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN
> http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit')
>
> Dirk
>
>
> On 22/01/2023 08:39, Rene Olsen via Dxspider-support wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have put the badip lines into my crontab file, but wanted to just
> update it every 4 hours
> > instead of every hour.
> >
> > However the following doesn't seem to work
> >
> > 42 */4 * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN
> http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit')
> >
> > The crontab gets loaded after the change, but nothing seems to happen at
> 0042, 0442, 0842
> > an so on.
> >
> > Does the spider crontab not use the "normal" crontab syntax?
> >
> > Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH
> >
> >
> >
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