Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!mot!fred From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: (Summary) L.sys time field query re weekdays/weekend Message-ID: <466@mot.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 14:29:38 EST Article-I.D.: mot.466 Posted: Tue Nov 26 14:29:38 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Nov-85 21:40:03 EST Distribution: net Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ 85282 Lines: 50 here's the original posting: > according to the UUCP admin tutorial i have, the time field consists > of a days-of-the-week AND times-of-day (range). this would seem to > suggest that the following are acceptable: > Any /* absolutely any time, any day */ > Wk1800-0800 /* weekdays, 6pm to 8am, only */ > MoWeFr0800-1800 /* fairly obvious by now */ > while these are not acceptable: > 1800-0800 /* any day, between 6pm and 8am */ > Never /* this gets the effect i want, anyhow */ > > what is not clear (due to narrow examples and limited explication) is > if i can formulate time fields like these: > MoWeFr1000-1800TuThSa1200-2300 /* for whatever bizarre reason */ > Wk1700-0800SaSu /* weekday nights and anytime weekends */ > > it is this latter formulation that i hope to use. is this possible? > we run System V R2 on a VAX-11/780. here's a summary of responses: only one individual was sure that Wk1700-0800SaSu would work since something similar was working on his PE system (Edition 7?). another individual suggested trying SaSuWk but gave no indication if he'd seen such actually working. sorry, neither seems to work on our system. quite a few folk indicated that 4.2 BSD-based systems permit the use of "|" to separate time fields, ala Wk1700-0800|Sa|Su. however, our System V does not recognize this construction. Peter Honeyman indicated that HoneyDanBer UUCP supports the use of "," to separate time fields, ala Wk1700-0800,Sa,Su. i'd be curious to know what is used for the time/delay separator, since that is ","'s current use in Sys V. whatever one's preference for separator characters, "," is a least usable. there is some indication that HoneyDanBer may become the standard UUCP pkg in some future Sys V release. thanks to Geoff Kuenning and Fred Avolio for indicating that (evidently) the only way to accomplish my goal in the current System V context, is to have two separate lines, ala neighbor Wk1700-0800 neighbor SaSu this is what we are now using at this site. thanks to everyone! -- << Generic disclaimer >> Fred Christiansen ("Canajun, eh?") @ Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ UUCP: {seismo!terak, trwrb!flkvax, utzoo!mnetor, ihnp4}!mot!fred ARPA: oakhill!mot!fred@ut-sally.ARPA "Families are Forever"