<div dir="ltr">Something to go in the new manual!<div>-David, N9KT</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 3:55 AM Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Erm...<br>
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I'm sorry that you should be confused by the name 'crontab' into <br>
thinking that it is the real thing. It is a cutdown implementation that <br>
I made in perl, many years ago. I am afraid you will need to give a <br>
comma separated list of hours:<br>
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42 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN <a href="http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit</a>')<br>
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Dirk<br>
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On 22/01/2023 08:39, Rene Olsen via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
> Hi.<br>
><br>
> I have put the badip lines into my crontab file, but wanted to just update it every 4 hours<br>
> instead of every hour.<br>
><br>
> However the following doesn't seem to work<br>
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> 42 */4 * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN <a href="http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit</a>')<br>
><br>
> The crontab gets loaded after the change, but nothing seems to happen at 0042, 0442, 0842<br>
> an so on.<br>
><br>
> Does the spider crontab not use the "normal" crontab syntax?<br>
><br>
> Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH<br>
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