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/home/groups/n/no/noxwizard/cvs/src/crontab.h File Reference

Simple crontab-like scheduler for UOX servers. More...

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Functions
void	killCronTab ()
	Kills the scheduler, just for reloads otherwise useless (OS frees memory automatically).
void	initCronTab ()
	Inits the scheduler, must be called right before the main loop.
void	checkCronTab ()
	checks for ready schedules, should be called at the beginning of the main loop

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Detailed Description

Simple crontab-like scheduler for UOX servers.

Author:

Xanathar

Remarks:

All the cron-jobs are in crontab.uox under the uox directory

Note:

The entries are checked in the same order entered

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If you enables the DEBUGMODE macro commands are not executed but a system string is broadcasted to everyone with the command line at execution time

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Note that the "resolution" is 2 minutes so the schedule "* * * * * SAVE" is a save executed every 2 minutes

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This piece of code is actually ALPHA TESTING ;) don't blame me if it destroy your server

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any line not beginning with a number is considered a comment

Note:

since this is a rather old piece of code written originnaly for uox3 (but then discarded) it may (and probably will) contain some bugs :(

Note:

On NoX-Wizard 0.50 and later, this will become the main scheduling engine for all realworld time scheduled tasks, like weather changes, world saves, backups, and more

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Can be edited with the not pratical :D text editor of remote administration and eventually reloaded. New tasks can be added at runtime with no save by amx fns with
<font face="monospace">addCronTask ( const format[], ...);</font>
which simply adds a schedule with that ConOut like syntax command.

Note:

Also the commands ADDCRON and ADDCRONW of remote administration takes a string and insert it directly in the tasks list, the secondo updating the file also.

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Function Documentation

void checkCronTab (    )

checks for ready schedules, should be called at the beginning of the main loop Function to be called every now and then... check to tasks ready to be scheduled Author: Xanathar

void initCronTab (    )

Inits the scheduler, must be called right before the main loop. Function called to init the Crontab management code Author: Xanathar Remarks: must be called right before the main loop

void killCronTab (    )

Kills the scheduler, just for reloads otherwise useless (OS frees memory automatically). Frees the memory and kills the scheduler [maybe for a reload, not needed for termination] not really deeply debugged (ok neither the rest is really deeply debugged! eheh ;) ) Author: Xanathar