bind time triggering every 5 minutes help

gorydetailz · Post by **gorydetailz** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:36 pm

Hello there, fellow eggdroppers.

Is there any way to make a "bind time" trigger every five minutes? I tried the crontab style

bind time - "*/5 * * * *" my_proc

... but that doesn't seem to work. Also,

bind time - "?5 * * * *" my_proc

... will only trigger on minutes ending of 5, which is not what I want. So, I'm stuck. Anyone care to shed a little light? Thanks!

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:51 pm

bind time - "?5 * * * *" my_proc
bind time - "?0 * * * *" my_proc

would trigger it all 5 mins (x0 and x5)
or you try a timer

timer 5 myproc
proc myproc { args } {
do something
timer 5 myproc
}

Post by **CrazyCat** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:13 am

Using the recursive timer is quite dangerous: when you rehash your eggdrop (so, usually when you test the tcl), you'll enable a lot of timers

So, think to restart the eggdrop when your tcl is ok.

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:14 am

CrazyCat wrote:Using the recursive timer is quite dangerous: when you rehash your eggdrop (so, usually when you test the tcl), you'll enable a lot of timers
So, think to restart the eggdrop when your tcl is ok.

just kill the timer again...killtimer & timerexists are your friends

strikelight · Post by **strikelight** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:06 pm

GodOfSuicide wrote:
CrazyCat wrote:Using the recursive timer is quite dangerous: when you rehash your eggdrop (so, usually when you test the tcl), you'll enable a lot of timers
So, think to restart the eggdrop when your tcl is ok.
just kill the timer again...killtimer & timerexists are your friends

Easier and more practical to set a variable upon starting the timer for the first time, and checking if that variable exists or not before starting a timer.