User:Magick777/My N900 Scheduling
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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. The [fcron] page is well-written and useful, but I think Alarmed is the better tool for the job, partly on the strength of the GUI and partly because it uses an existing daemon rather than adding another one.
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