Binding time (scheduled jobs)

[ramirez]

Hey, before [censored] up anything, I might ask this here.
Can I bind times with eggdrop like with cronjobs?
I want a scheduled job to call a certain proc every 4th hour, and instead of doing:

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bind time - "00 00 * * *" proc
bind time - "00 04 * * *" proc
bind time - "00 08 * * *" proc
bind time - "00 12 * * *" proc
bind time - "00 16 * * *" proc
bind time - "00 20 * * *" proc

Can I just do (like with cronjob):

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bind time - "00 */4 * * *" proc

or

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bind time - "00 00,04,08,12,16,20 * * *" proc

Or is there some other way to achieve this?

Thanks.

[demond]

nope, eggdrop doesn't support UNIX cron daemon's syntax

[demond]

but you could easily emulate it with:

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bind time - "00 *" foo
proc foo {m h d mo y} {
   if {$h % 4 == 0} {
   # go ahead, do the stuff
   }
}

[ramirez]

Yeah, that works fine demond, thanks. :)