Olivier Ricou a écrit : > die 17/02/09, ad 13h37, COURTAUD Didier <[email protected]> dixit : >> Here is the one I use without problem on my N810 tablet > > It seems it does use the alarm interface which mean you have a daemon > running continuously. I would be affraid to kill the battery. > Crontab for a handheld should be hardware. >
Of course there is a crond daemon running continously as in every Unix machine. But there is no effect on the life of the battery. I never halt my tablet letting it light off automatically and the battery life duration is many days without any problem > In our case, at the end, crontab's events should be recorded in > /var/lib/alarmd/alarm_queue.xml > > I tried once to make a crontab using the alarm API, unfortunnately > it used pyalarmd of Gene Cash which had a bug (or alarm itself). > If you can provide me a Python library to control the alarm, I > will update my crontab python script. > > Olivier. > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
