User:Magick777/My N900 Scheduling

Contents

Approaches to scheduling

fcron

alarmed

What do I need to schedule

Backups

Maintenance

  • Reset data counters, monthly (done via Alarmed)


Profiles

Criteria for scheduling events

Cron-based scheduling

Certain actions need to be scheduled according to time of day, week or month, i.e. as per the scheduling behaviour of the Unix cron daemon. There seem to be two viable ways of achieving this, via fcron and Alarmed.

  • Reset GPRS data counters at 0000 on first of each month
  • Automated backup of phone to PC
  • Update e-mail etc. when at home on WiFi to minimise mobile updates

System event scheduling

Calendar-based scheduling

Location-based scheduling

Changelog for scheduled events

This will be moved to the bottom of the page later.

2010-07-15

  • Installed 'alarmed' from extras-devel, had to ln -sf python2.5 to /usr/bin/python
  • Configured alarmed to reset GPRS data at 0000 on 1st of each month
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