iCk rules file

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iCk rules file

Comments begin with a pound sign (#) character and continue to the end of the line. All blank lines are ignored. Activity requests are indicated by keywords, all of which begin with the dollar sign ($) character.

In the descriptions of the activities, the definitions in the following table apply:


Term	Description	Comments
{process}	The ASCII name of a process appearing in the Bulletin Board	TSM or MTC
{runlevels}	Specifies which run levels to use to perform the activity	The syntax is the same as used by init, that is, 4 = run level 4, 234 = run levels 2, 3, or 4
{checkPeriod/Time}	Indicates the activities performed repetitively have a specification of either: how often to perform the activity, or at what times of the day or week to perform the activity	One of three forms is used: - (hyphen) ďż˝ Perform the activity once when the rules are first read and do not perform it again checkPeriod ďż˝ A period of time is specified as the sum of a number of different time elements: [NNd] [NNh] [NNm] [NNs]. For example, 5m means every 5 minutes, and 5h 30m means every five and a half hours. Each element is a number followed by the type of specifier, d=days, h=hours, m=minutes, s=seconds. The order is irrelevant (5h 30m is the same as 30m 5h). Time ďż˝ If it is important that an activity be performed at a specific time of day or week, the time format should be used. It has the following form: `X {monthday} {weekday} {hour} {min} {sec}`

All five elements are required for the specification to be accepted. Each element can be one of items described in the following table:


Items	Description
*	All items in class (days of the month, hours in the day, and so on)
N	The specific item
N-M	The items between N and M inclusive
N,M	The individual items N and M in the class

The items within each class are defined in the following table:


Item	Values
{monthday}	1-31
{weekday}	ASCII day of the week (sun, mon,...)
{hour}	0-23
{min}	0-59
{sec}	0-59

For example: " * * * 0 0 " means perform each hour on the hour. "13 fri 12 0 0" means perform the activity at noon on any Friday the 13th.

The {cmd} command is executed if the activity so dictates. Within the command itself, there are four meta-words that can be used to generate flexible commands. Not all four meta-words have meaning in all cases. The meta-words are defined in the following table:


Meta-word	Definition
%f	The full file name
%d	The directory portion of the file name
%b	The base name of the file name
%p	The process identification (PID) of the process