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Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:14 pm
by Skillz
Does the script have to be run multiple times for a reason? Like are there instances where the script fails to do what it's supposed to do so running it every minute for an hour guarantees success at least once?
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 5:29 pm
by crashtech
No, I just want it to run once. Maybe my syntax is wrong, I need to check it. I assumed that is was failing and retrying, sounds like I am wrong about that. I only want it to run one time a week, at 3AM on Sunday morning.
I will put the whole path of the output file as well.
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 5:46 pm
by Skillz
Well the cronjob should look like this;
0 3 * * sun
or
0 3 * * 7
That's at 3am every Sunday, every week. It will only run once.
Cool site I use to check the cron scheduling is here:
https://crontab.guru/
Very useful for taking the "work" out of setting up a cronjob.
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:35 pm
by crashtech
Meh. Now I have something that is slightly closer to working. It runs, but it creates a blank text file instead of writing the output into it.
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0 3 * * 0 ./home/garage/Desktop/Weekly_Stats_Scripts/weekly_stats_dump.sh > /home/garage/Desktop/Weekly_Stats_Scripts/weekly_stats_dump_output.txt
There doesn't seem to be a problem with permissions. Running the command as a normal user from the root directory is successful.
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:48 pm
by Skillz
It might be better to write in the script to output the results to a file.
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:05 pm
by crashtech
When I run that in a terminal window, it does write the results to the file specified. So if there is a better way, I don't know how.
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 10:36 am
by Skillz
I mean without having to use > to dump the output in the terminal to a file.
I'll check it out tonight and do some research on how to implement an output within' the script code directly. Gotta be a way.
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:08 pm
by StefanR5R
Remove the dot before /home in the crontab line.
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 5:12 pm
by crashtech
StefanR5R wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:08 pm
Remove the dot before /home in the crontab line.
Okay I will. Initially I did not have it in there, I'll take it back out.
Re: Weekly DC Stats scripts
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 12:14 pm
by StefanR5R
Opening post edited:
weekly_stats_dump.sh:
– Don't look for OGR-28 updates anymore.
fah_weekly_stats_dump.sh:
– Use firefox's user agent string in the HTTP requests which are issued via the "links" browser.
– Insert a small delay between HTTP requests, to go easy on the folding.extremeoverclocking.com web server. This script issues only 3…4 requests though, so it's not been a big deal.