@@ -60,6 +60,23 @@ The "magic" part of craken is the bit that crontab added: cd /home/thatguy/u/apps/foo/current && /usr/bin/rake --silent RAILS_ENV=production +=== Special crontab string support + +An example line to add a rake task to be executed after reboot: + + @reboot thinking_sphinx:start > /tmp/ts_startup.log 2>&1 + +All special strings and their effects: +[<tt>@reboot</tt>] execute after reboot +[<tt>@yearly</tt>] every year +[<tt>@annually</tt>] every year hipster version +[<tt>@monthly</tt>] every month, or better known as: <i>No roll in the hay for you this time honey!</i> +[<tt>@weekly</tt>] just like every month but weekly +[<tt>@daily</tt>] like brushing your teeth +[<tt>@midnight</tt>] when the ghosts come out +[<tt>@hourly</tt>] whenever the long hand of your watch is at 12 + +Read more about crontab special strings here: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?crontab+5 == Other Formats You can also specify other types of files to describe +raketabs+. You can have multiple formats and they README.rdoc f5f310fc901c2a2b4800249380fa167da4ed9aa0 Overbryd l.rieder@gmail.com http://github.com/latimes/craken/commit/f02c57b046b9fda29252340399710fddd353942b f02c57b046b9fda29252340399710fddd353942b 2009-09-10T16:11:11-07:00 2009-09-10T16:11:11-07:00 Updated the README to inform about the crontab special strings. @reboot comes in very handy imho. 3ae8745cb08aac0496a898a0652bf49aa3085764 Overbryd l.rieder@gmail.com