[hoboman]

Hobo Crontab

Description:

This plugin will schedule to run a list of commands or comment/uncomment a plugin from your plugins.ini file which it will read from hobo_crontab.ini file in your addons\amxmodx\configs folder ( auto created if you don't create it ) on a given day of month, day of week, hour and minute.

Cron Entry Format:

Code:
day_of_month day_of_week hour minute | cmd..., $plugin_to_comment..., @plugin_to_uncomment...

- day of month has to be a number 1-32 or a * which means that for every day of month
- day of week has to be a number 0-6 where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday or a * which means that for every day of week
- hour has to be a number 0-24 or a * which means that for every hour of the day
- minute has to be a number 0-60 or a * which means that for every minute of the hour

- can uncomment any plugin from the plugins.ini file by putting a @ before of its name
- can comment any plugin from the plugins.ini file by putting a $ before of its name

Examples:

03 01 02 59 | say mp_roundtime 5, say NOW

- on the third day of the month, Monday, the second hour on the fifty ninth minute change the round time to 5 minutes then the server will say "NOW"

* 2 * 2 | say hello, $repay.amxx, @ptb.amxx, changelevel cs_assault

- on every day of month, Tuesday, every hour and on the second minute make the server say "hello", comment the repay.amxx plugin and uncomment the ptb.amxx plugin then set the map to cs_assault.

Commands:

hobo_crontab_reload - reloads all the entries from the hobo_crontab.ini file. This is useful because otherwise the entries only get updated on map change.
hobo_show_time - shows the current time on the game server. This is useful for planning what time to put each command for if your server is in a different timezone.

Plugin Notes:

- the maximum length of a single command in an entry is 31 characters
- the maximum number of commands per entry is 8 ( #define MAX_CMDS_PER_ENTRY )
- the maximum number of entries is 32 ( #define MAX_CRON_ENTRIES )

[hazard1337]

this looks really in depth and developed. O.o

Edit: Code looks solid, testing.

[Lord_Destros]

What makes this CS specific?

[hoboman]

Originally Posted by Lord_Destros What makes this CS specific?

nothing...lol

should probably edit the category

[hoboman]

Updated:
- changed maximum number of entries from 64 to 32 to save some memory
- fixed a bug where if a map got changed on the same minute that the cmds were scheduled to be run then there was a chance that those cmds would be ignored...

btw, can anyone verify that this plugin works?

[YamiKaitou]

Originally Posted by hoboman - changed maximum number of entries from 64 to 32 to save some memory

Why not use the CellArray that came available in 1.8?

[hoboman]

I am looking at these CellArrays now and apparently they are slower than using just regular arrays:

* These are not designed to be used as a replacement for normal arrays, as * normal arrays are faster and should be used whenever possible.

Also memory is cheap, so I don't know if it is even worth it to convert this to CellArrays...

[spiderbites]

Originally Posted by hoboman Hobo Crontab the maximum length of a single command in an entry is 31 characters

can you increase that length? cause i want to schedule my server to say something like announcement etc.

[hoboman]

why not just use imessage.amxx for that? it already comes with amxx.
if you wanna increase that length then change: #define MAX_CRON_ENTRIES 32 at the beginning of file to whatever you want it to be and recompile

[WiLDRAGoN]

hoboman, would you tell me how I can get this plugin to do this please?
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=71207