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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Utilities => Topic started by: Dan Eicher on August 08, 2025, 01:22:12 am

Title: Job Scheduling
Post by: Dan Eicher 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?
Title: Re: Job Scheduling
Post by: Dave Yeo 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.
Title: Re: Job Scheduling
Post by: Dariusz Piatkowski on August 08, 2025, 03:02:42 am
I use CRON/2...pretty easy setups:

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│   A UN*X CRON clone for OS/2       │
│   with client/server networking    │
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│            version 1.4n            │
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│    Copyright (C) 1993 Bob Hood     │
│                  2001 Detlef Graef │
│                  2015-19 Yuri Dario│
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Title: Re: Job Scheduling
Post by: Dan Eicher 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.