Crontab and wineggies

Pitchat · Post by **Pitchat** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 11:47 am

Hi !

I heard that it is possible to make a "crontab" or something equal for eggies on a windows platform.

I`d like to know more if somebody know , in fact the only thing i`d like to do is to make my eggy reconnect himself after a crash so if there is a way and you know how i`ll be happy to learn it

Thanks

Pitchat

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:17 am

There is no crontab system for windows, though there is the windows scheduler.

On top, there is no process control program (kill) to check if eggdrop is allready running.

What can be done, is periodicaly touching a file (file mtime). This will allow you to query when a eggdrop was last known to be active.

Windows schedulaer can then start eggdrop all the time. Eggdrop will check if the file has been modified in X mins, and die if it has.

If not, continue.

madgabz · Post by **madgabz** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 1:38 am

There IS a crontab app for windows, with the same format for the tab-file as in *nix
its called (gasp!): WinCron

If you need to, you can download a limited version here!.

I highly recommend it, though its a bit 'geekier' to setup and use, than windows scheduler!

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 5:26 am

Windows schedual should work perfectly fine for the job.

This issue is around process control.

Eggdrops cron job, uses the *nix "kill" command, to test if the PID of a eggdrop is alive.

This process doesn't exist in windows.