Subj : Poll
To   : Jon Justvig
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Fri Mar 04 2016 12:44 pm

Hello Jon.

04 Mar 16 11:50, you wrote to all:

 JJ> Could someone tell me how to automatically poll my uplink on a
 JJ> schedule.  I'm running Linux.  I have to manually poll and I would
 JJ> like to get net/echomail on a regular basis so I can send to my
 JJ> downlinks.  Thanks.

Here on my Linux machine I setup crontab to setup what events I.E. poll's,
program executions, scan/toss mmail, Etc that I need to run at times of my
choosing.

As root in a terminal window type "crontab -e". That will bring up the nano
text editor and load your crontab config file. Then add the line to run the
script or load the file of your choice at the time/date of your choosing. An
example would be:

* * * * * /bin/execute/this/script.sh
| | | | |______ day of week (from 0 to 6) (0=Sunday)
| | | |________ month (from 1 to 12)
| | |__________ day of month (from 1 to 31)
| |____________ hour (from 0 to 23)
|______________ minute (from 0 to 59)

A "*" can be used as a wildcard

So:

 0 1 * * 5 /bin/execute/this/script.sh

would execute /bin/execute/this/script.sh the script to run at 1AM every 
Friday.

Hope this helps.


 JJ> Sincerely,
 JJ> Jon Justvig
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Jeff

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