Warpcron...
- is texmode only
This means its very small and fast and needs very low ressources
f.g. nearly no CPU-Time
- is configurable by an ASCII configuration file
no problem to configure it with any editor in textmode
- has a nice graphical configuration program, WarpcronSetup
with which you can very easy create your events and configure your Warpcron.
If you change something while Warpcron is active, Warpcron recognize the change and
rereads the config automatically.
- is a native, 32 Bit OS/2 program
and uses native OS/2 functions for many things, there's no overhead for starting programs
- can start every type of program
OS/2 texmode, PM, DOS, ... window or fullscreen, detached or minimized, even WPS objects can be scheduled!
- writes a comprehensive logfile
...to save it activities so that you can control what happened when
The logfile is in "Binkley"-Style, so that you can use external logfile viewers
- keeps you informed via email
It notifies you when something happened, like an error, a trap, starting or ending.
And it can send you the logfile of today via email, every day.
So you know everyday what happened last day.
- uses a configurable email program to send emails, f.g. warpmail or sendmail
- can say a "hello" to its logfile in configurable time intervals
So you can control if everythings runs fine on a remote machine
- one event can kill another event
If you want to make sure that a started event terminates sometime, another event can
kill it.
- can display notes on your wps
like those yellow sticky notes
- supports for 4os2 .btm files
- searches files like its config or event datetime-lists in current directory or /etc
- you can edit the config right out of a running warpcron
- can be end itself when a specific file (semaphore) exists
- writes its PID to a file
- has a leveled debug mode which writes debug messages to stderr
- can shutdown your OS/2 at end
and can kill programs before Shutdown, so that OS/2 doesn't ask if it should terminate program XXX and block
shutdown...
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- start a program
WPS-Objects
OS/2 Textmode window or fullscreen, minimized or not
OS/2 PM
OS/2 detached
DOS window or fullscreen
Windows (is nothing else than DOS ;-) )
- a program can be .exe, .cmd, .bat or .btm (4os2)
- kill another event's program
- be a note, stored in a textfile, which is displayed onto the wps
- be unforgettable
Warpcron saves next datetime of unforgettable events to a file when ending and
reads this file at startup. When there's an event which time is past, warpcron starts it.
- a start can be written to logfile or not
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