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Dan Eicher

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Job Scheduling
« on: August 08, 2025, 01:22:12 am »
Last week I installed locate.

Today, I went in to use it was warned - the database was more than 8 days old.

I use crontab on linux, and at on windows.

What's the preferred method of job scheduling on ArcaOS?

Dave Yeo

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Re: Job Scheduling
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2025, 01:46:44 am »
There are ports of chron and similar. The ArcaOS way would be to create a program object for your program, open the properties and go to the schedule tab and set the time and how often to open it, weekly in your case I assume.

Dariusz Piatkowski

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Re: Job Scheduling
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2025, 03:02:42 am »
I use CRON/2...pretty easy setups:

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│            version 1.4n            │
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│    Copyright (C) 1993 Bob Hood     │
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Re: Job Scheduling
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2025, 11:00:14 am »


Ok, I'm sure I could make cron work (we have been friends for 40 years), but since my primary reason for investment in Arca was to re-familiarize myself with os/2 and learn all the new arac goodness, I'll try the program object way first.

Thanks Dariusz and Dave.