[Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

Carl Makin carl at stagecraft.cx
Wed Apr 15 20:55:59 EDT 2009



On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, James Ewen wrote:
>> 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.

Something like;

#!/bin/sh

RIGHTNOW=`date +%Y%M%d%H%M`

if [ -f 'snapshot.jpg' ]; then
         mv snapshot.jpg archive/snapshot-$RIGHTNOW.jpg
fi



Carl.
(vk1kcm)




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