Re: ctrl/modopts.ini
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun Mar 29 2020 10:29 pm
Re: ctrl/modopts.ini
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sun Mar 29 2020 09:33 pm
Ah, thanks, typo on my part. "logonlist install" does do the right thing though and adds "?logonlist -m" as the system's daily event.
I'm curious why the Daily Event option was added?
It's actually always been there.
I'd think the logonlist
maintenance could be set up as a Timed Event to run at (or near) midnight every day.
I suppose, but then it'd have to run in the event thread, which is optional (can be disabled) and can also be delayed while other timed events are running.
The System Daily Event cannot be disabled and runs in the node's thread (the first node thread to be created in a new day) if the event thread isn't running. So it's more dependable than a timed event. You could try it as a timed event and let me know how it works out?
One downside I see with using the system daily event is that the first user of a new day will be included in the previous-day's logonlist. So... that could be
a problem.
Also, since the Daily Event is configurable, I'd think that
could be configured to run something else other than the logonlist maintenance..
Yeah, but I don't think anybody is/was using it for anything. Ideally, the sytem daily event would be a list of events to run instead of just a single. I used to use a batch file that did a bunch of things, but those have been replaced with timed events.
digital man
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