uptab

uptab − uptime schedule editor

uptab [ -f FILE ] OPTIONS

uptab is a tool to manipulate an uptab(5) configuration file for the Shuriken uptime scheduler. Shuriken uses the Linux real time clock daily alarm to ensure that a system is up for user-specified periods of time.

-?|--help

Display detailed usage information and a list of options for uptab

-f|--config-file= FILE

Specify an alternate uptab(5) file.

-i|--init

Initialize an uptab(5) configuration file. (Since the uptab(5) format is based on XML, a root element is required, etc.)

-b|--begin= DATETIME

Specify the beginning of a time interval (for adding a span of time to the uptab(5) file). Formatting should follow ISO 8601. Example: 2003-07-15T13:45-7:00

-d|--duration= DURATION

Specify the duration of a time interval (for adding a span of time to the uptab(5) file). Formatting should follow ISO 8601. Example: P0Y0M0DT2H35M

-c|--description= COMMENT

Specify a comment/description of a time interval (for adding a span of time to the uptab(5) file). This is useful to give intervals unique identifiers if an application plans to remove a span of time after adding it (e.g. if the user changes their mind).

-e|--edit

Edit the XML of an uptab(5) file by hand using $VISUAL .

-r|--remove= XPATH

Remove the nodes matching the XPath from an uptab(5) file. For example: //uptab/span[@description = ’ID 123’]

--clean

Clean out an uptab(5) file by removing all of the time spans that are in the past. This is a convenient, automatic way to remove crusty old entries from an uptab(5) file, but it safe to call every time the system is shut down (if disk space is very important, I guess)

Jared Krinke <deraj@users.sourceforge.net>

shuriken(7), uptabrtc(8), uptab(5)

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