Subj : dayboot1 question
To   : mark lewis
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Sat Nov 22 2003 07:27 am

Hello mark,

    On Wednesday November 12 2003 at 11:57,
    mark lewis [1:3634/12] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  dayboot1 question

 ml> can dayboot handle running items on specific dates or as soon after
 ml> that date? the concept of running every X days is ok for some things
 ml> but if i need something run on the 25th, i can't just say +30 for the
 ml> days between runs as it wouldn't always run /on/ the 25th...

 ml> i'm not yet actively using dayboot in a production environment because
 ml> i'm needing this one capability... the main thing is that if the
 ml> machine is locked up on the 24th and doesn't get unstuck until the
 ml> 26th, that task for the 25th must still run...

I'm sorry for taking so long to answer your post, but my uplink crashed and
he was not able to get his system back up and running until yesterday...

Now, to attempt to answer your questions:

If you want dayboot to run something every twenty-five days, then it should
be able to deal with that.

If you want dayboot to run something on the twenty-fifth of each month (or
as soon after as possible), then I would say that dayboot will have some
problems (dayboot is a day counter and the months do not have consistent
days)...

Without knowing more detail of your requirements, I would suggest that you
modify your "25th.btm" to do the date checking and use dayboot to call the
"25th.btm" everyday.

I can post an example of my Squish maintenance routine (runs every Sunday
and uses "iff %@dow[%date] == Sun" and checks for the presence of a zero
byte flag file to ensure that the routine only runs once every Sunday), to
give you some ideas, if you're interested.  Of course, you would have to
change the variables...

The idea of the zero byte flag file has many possibilities - one being that
it can be used to check the time remaining until the next run.  Or, if the
zero byte file does not appeal to you, you could "touch" the "25th.btm"
every time it is run and do a calculation of the time past/remaining until
the next run.

I hope that give you some inspirations...  ;-)

           Cheers ... Gerald

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