mutil maint.ini

If I run this manually, it runs fine. There appears to be no syntax issue in the INI file. However, I cannot make this run in an automated fashion.

Every so often I log in and run it manually.

I have it set up with these settings:

Active: Yes
Description: Nightly Maintenance
Event Type: Shell
Exec Hour: 11
Exec Min: 0
Shell: mutil maint.ini
Semaphore: <none>
Kill After: <none>
Warning: 0

SMTWTFS all set to Yes.

I have tried fiddling with the pathnames. I am running v1.12 A47 (need to update this at some point) on Debian.

BTW in case anyone is wondering - That odd 11am exec hour is because my board is configured as UTC, so that's 3am my time. Long story.

I suppose an option is to just set it up as a cronjob. I'd prefer not to. Is there any downside to doing it that way?

Thanks folks; this has been baffling me for months. All my other jobs (like the polling) works fine.

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Shell: mutil maint.ini

This is a shot in the dark here, but have you tried changing the command line to "./mutil maint.ini"

If that still doesn't work, g00r00 has been making some changes to mutil in regards to how it handles paths for the *.ini files in the A48 PreAlphas.

... Error 3032 - Recursion error. See error 3032.

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On 03 Feb 2022 at 02:04p, blade pondered and said...

Shell: mutil maint.ini

This is a shot in the dark here, but have you tried changing the command line to "./mutil maint.ini"

I agree adding a ./ should do the trick :)

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