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+<H2><A NAME="s6">6. General Information</A></H2>
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+<P>The following relates to all versions of DXSpider and is not platform related.
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+<H2><A NAME="ss6.1">6.1 The crontab file</A>
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+<P>Login as <EM>sysop</EM> and create a file in /spider/local_cmd called crontab.
+Edit it with your favourite editor and add a line like this (I have included
+a comment)
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+# check every 10 minutes to see if gb7xxx is connected and if not
+# start a connect job going
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+0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('gb7xxx') if unless connected('gb7xxx')
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+<P>The callsign involved will be the callsign of the cluster node you are
+going to connect to. This will now check every 10 minutes to see if
+gb7xxx is connected, if it is then nothing will be done. If it is not,
+then a connect attempt will be started.
+<P>
+<P>There are probably lots of other things you could use this crontab file for.
+If you want to know more about it, look at the
+<A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org/cron.html">DXSpider</A> website
+at the cron page where it is explained more fully.
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