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| Q: I want to have a message run every N (Hour, Min, Sec) on my server but stop showing it after 10 times. | |
| A: You can do something like this. | |
| <job id=’0′> | |
| <day>1,2,3,4,5,6,7</day> | |
| <start>010000</start> | |
| <runtime>010000</runtime> | |
| <loop>9</loop> | |
| <cmd>say -1 text xyz</cmd> | |
| </job> | |
| This will start the job after one hour and show the message, it will continue to show the message nine times more, once each hour | |
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| Q: How can i set a task to repeat itself within a give time frame of the day. ? | |
| Example i want to show message: “Wherez My Beer Dude” every 15 min from 18:00:00 to 20:00:00 | |
| I don’t want to create tons of jobs nor do i want to have same message repeating itself all time. | |
| A: You can not stop a task at a precise time. | |
| but we can do this somewhat. We will be using the hh:mm:ss in start tag and some simple math. | |
| So. from 18:00 to 20:00 there is 120 minutes.. ok so we know the total minutes it should be active. | |
| Now to do an estimate: 120 total min / 15 min interval = 8 | |
| So we are left with 8 times the messages should be show. | |
| we just put this in our scheduler file | |
| <job id=’0′> | |
| <day>1,2,3,4,5,6,7</day> | |
| <start>18:00:00</start> | |
| <runtime>001500</runtime> | |
| <loop>7</loop> | |
| <cmd>say -1 Wherez My Beer Dude</cmd> | |
| </job> | |
| We don’t use loop 8, but 7 because we show the message once then repeat it 7 times more with 15 min apart. | |
| In total 8 messages will be shown | |
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| Q: I have a job that is set to use a external bat script. but it doesn’t work. | |
| A: There could be several reasons to it. | |
| -*- Check List -*- | |
| 1 – Check your path in your scheduler.xml file, make sure its the full path and set correct. | |
| Thought Bec should detect this if its wrong. | |
| 2 – if Bec is started up with the –dec parameter, it will be auto disabled. | |
| (Bec.exe -f my_config.cfg –dec ) disables Bec from using external commands. | |
| This is the case for both the Scheduler.xml and the Commands.xml file | |
| GameHosters that are using Bec and not using (–dec) sets them self at a security risk. | |
| But that another story and not really my problem. | |
| 3 – Try run it in CMD.exe, see how it works without Bec. | |
| 4 – Keep in mind that the CWD (Current Work Directory) your bat|cmd script or program will have is the same as your Bec install. | |
| Let say the path you have your Bec installed is at (C:\Tools\Bec). | |
| This is and will be the CWD of your script even if its located in C:\Scripts\Myfile.bat or some other place. | |
| Depending on your script and what it does, you might need to set a new work-dir by editing your script with something like: | |
| ::——————– | |
| set NewCWD=”C:\Scripts\” | |
| cd /d %NewCWD% | |
| do stuff | |
| ::——————– | |
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| Q: Which commands does the scheduler support? | |
| A: The scheduler supports these commands in the <cmd> tag. | |
| say -1 some text | |
| loadbans | |
| loadscripts | |
| loadevents | |
| writebans | |
| maxping 250 | |
| #shutdown | |
| #restart | |
| #reassign | |
| #lock | |
| #unlock | |
| #mission filename (without the .pbo extension) | |
| systime | |
| uptime | |
| fortune | |
| exit | |
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