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diff --git a/desktop-cronish.1.in b/desktop-cronish.1.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2024c3b --- /dev/null +++ b/desktop-cronish.1.in @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +.\" Copyright 2013 Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> +.\" +.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +.\" (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +.\" +.TH DESKTOP-CRONISH 1 +.SH NAME +desktop-cronish \- run periodic jobs in a desktop session +.SH SYNOPSIS +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BB desktop-cronish +runs periodic jobs in a desktop session. +It can be used to run +.BR offlineimap (1), +for example. +.SH OPTIONS +.SH EXAMPLE +To run +.BR offlineimap (1) +every minute, +and +.BR wotsap (1) +every week, +create the following file and call it foo.cronish: +.PP +.nf +.RS +offlineimap: + interval: 60 + timeout: 120 + command: offlineimap -u quiet + +wotsap: + trigger-file: /home/liw/.wotsapdb + trigger-age: 604800 + command: /home/liw/bin/update-wotsap +.RE +.fi +.PP +When you log into your desktop, open a terminal and run the following +command: +.PP +.nf +.RS +desktop-cronish foo.cronish +.RE +.fi +.PP +The command will run indefinitely, until you kill it with control-C. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR fixme (1), +.BR fixme (7). |