[gpodder-devel] Run Schedule Cron Job for gPodder
- From: thp at perli.net (Thomas Perl)
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:56:08 +0100
Justin Forest wrote:
>> This is the way to do it (although better use "crontab -e" like
>> Sebastian suggested). Just make sure that you don't accidentally start
>> gPodder while this console process is running. Currently, we do not
>> check for other running instances, so if you happen to have gPodder
>> running while this command is executed, expect unexpected behaviour :)
>
> Actually, you can't run two instances: the second attempt will fail with
> an "SQLite: database is locked" error. So, no unexpected behaviour this
> time. ;)
Neat! This means we get single instance checking for free :) Now we just
have to catch that error and display a nice error message so the user
knows what's going on (instead of just erroring out).
Thomas
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