[Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

[James Ewen]

Cron jobs are things that you can have set to run at specific times on
a Linux system. You simply set up the timing, and tell it what you
want to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

James


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Jim Tolbert <RiverRidge at centurytel.net> wrote:
> I don't understand "cron job", but your description of just a static image
> that you can't zoom and pan would be great.  Basicially, just one screen
> shot after the next, but displayed at a rate you can watch ( not too slow
> and not too fast <grin>)
>
> James Ewen wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jim Tolbert <RiverRidge at centurytel.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Stay tuned.... I am off to try it.
>>>
>>
>> I'm thinking you guys are all going overboard.
>>
>> It sounds like all Jim needs to do, is to have Xastir save a snapshot
>> every 5 minutes, and then have a cron job set up that copies the
>> latest image to a storage directory, renaming the file (possibly with
>> a timestamp) when it moves it.
>>
>> This means that the instance of Xastir needs to be focused on the area
>> of interest, and that you do not have the capability of zooming in and
>> out to see specific areas.
>>
>> Dynamic playback with the ability to move the map around, zooming in
>> on areas of interest during the replay would be cool, but quite a bit
>> more work than snapshots and cron jobs.
>>
>> James
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