example-cronjob.txt

# modify the address below to send alert emails to the desired email destination
MAILTO=important.person@company.com

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Here is a good resource if you haven't worked with cron jobs before:
# www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html
# 
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
# 
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').# 
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
# 
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
# 
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
# 
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#

# this job runs at 5 minutes after the hour, every hour
# Since the default setting in local.py is to capture 3 minutes after the end of the
# show, and many shows end on the hour, the jobs runs two minutes after that
5 * * * * python [put autocharlie folder here]/HourlyCron.py >> [put log destination here]/hourly_log.txt 2>&1

# The following job's purpose is to load any updates to the weekly schedule
# An update to the radio station's spinitron schedule by an admin via the
# Spinitron admin console will not be registered by AutoCharlie until the
# next WeeklyCron job is run
# (this job runs every morning at 4:30am, Monday to Friday
30 04 * * 1,2,3,4,5 python [put autocharlie folder here]/WeeklyCron.py >> [put log destination here]/weekly_log.txt 2>&1

# below is an example of a side job for creating an audio archive in a
# non-standard destination
17 12 * * 1,2,3,4,5 python [put autocharlie folder here]/SideJobs/example-side-job-cron.py >> [put autocharlie destination here]/side_job.txt 2>&1

# NOTE: AutoCharlie is CPU intensive, due to the ability of sox to use up
#       100% of CPU for minutes on end. SO BEWARE, and do not run multiple
#       instances of AutoCharlie concurrently.  Based on experience with a 
#		virtual machine with one CPU allocated, multiple processes running
#		sox simultaneously can crash