Weekly DC Stats scripts

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Skillz]

It might be better to write in the script to output the results to a file.

[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.

[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.

[StefanR5R]

Remove the dot before /home in the crontab line.

[crashtech]

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.

[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.