How to Schedule a TCL Procedure

Unfortunately, the Cloverleaf timer it set up more to handle absolute times than periodic times.  In Cron it would be easy to do something like:

                                */5 * * * *  myscript

In Cloverleaf using the timer mode of fileset, etc. you must do something like:

                   0 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *

This says to run at 0 seconds of every 5 minutes of every hour, etc.  It is important to set seconds to 0.  Leaving it at * would make it try to run every second.

Maybe someone could submit an enhancement request to implement periodic timing similar to the Cron paradigm.   😀

BTW I have used the ‘cron-style’ way of setting up advanced scheduling. The attached example shows how to look for a file every 5 minutes from 16:00 till 16:55.

PS I forgot to put the 0 for seconds. Not sure if the procedure then runs 60 times that specific second.

Interesting.  I did not know the “/” paridigm worked in Cloverleaf.  I tried with just /5 and did not work.   Maybe it needs the 0 in front?

Try restarting the whole process. I noticed that only restarting the thread didn’t work: had to restart the process for it to work.