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➜ Lua timer not firing.
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| Posted by
| Zeno
USA (2,871 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:34 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| I have this timer:
<timer enabled="y" send_to="12"
at_time="y" >
<send>Note ("Starting new log file.")
CloseLog()
OpenLog ('BIYG-'..os.date("%m")..'-'..os.date("%d")..'-'..os.date("%Y")..'.txt', false)</send>
</timer>
It is meant to fire at midnight to rotate my logs. The timer seems to never fire though, I tried setting my clock to 11:59PM and watching it hit the time. |
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Worstje
Netherlands (899 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:49 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | I may be blind, but where is the time you are triggering on in the <timer> tag? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Zeno
USA (2,871 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:50 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | I dunno. It's set to time at 0 hours, 0 min, 0 sec (which I assume is midnight) in the GUI. |
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Worstje
Netherlands (899 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #3 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:57 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| And is that absolute setting or a relative setting? I can't really test atm.
Otherwise, amuse me and try setting it to 00:01:30 (hh:mm:ss). | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Zeno
USA (2,871 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #4 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:59 PM (UTC) Amended on Sat 28 Jul 2007 08:00 PM (UTC) by Zeno
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| Message
| It's set "At the time: 0 0 0".
Here is what I get for 00:01:30
<timer enabled="y" minute="1" second="30.00" send_to="12"
at_time="y" >
<send>Note ("Starting new log file.")
CloseLog()
OpenLog ('BIYG-'..os.date("%m")..'-'..os.date("%d")..'-'..os.date("%Y")..'.txt', false)</send>
</timer>
|
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Worstje
Netherlands (899 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #5 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 08:07 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| And does that work now?
Otherwise, a far-fetched idea of why it might not be working... I recall Nick changing the way <timer> was parsed for ImportXML due to some bug or unintended behaviour. Maybe this is some kind of regression with normal timers? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Zeno
USA (2,871 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #6 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 08:14 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Didn't seem to work. I set the clock to 11:59PM and let it go to 12:03AM. Nothing happened. |
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Worstje
Netherlands (899 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #7 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 08:33 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Weird. I don't think I can help you anymore then. Sorry. :( | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #8 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 09:28 PM (UTC) |
| Message
|
Quote:
The timer seems to never fire though, I tried setting my clock to 11:59PM and watching it hit the time.
Are you connected to the world at the time? You need to check "Active when Disconnected". |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Zeno
USA (2,871 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #9 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 09:30 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | I'm always connected to the world. |
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #10 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 09:52 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| I set up your timer, and set the time to 11:59 pm, and it fired at midnight. However to test it I did a:
ResetTimer ("test") -- after renaming the timer "test"
The reason is that if you fiddle with the time it may get confused. Especially if you set the clock back to 11:59 pm it may think it has a day to go (not a minute). So by doing a ResetTimer you are making sure the day/date it is set to fire is the correct one. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #11 on Sat 28 Jul 2007 09:54 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | The other thing I would do is print (or note somewhere) the return code from OpenLog. If it fails for some reason, the logs won't open. For example, if the path is not right. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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