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How do I update from version 1.0/1.1 to 1.2?
TimeGuardian 1.2 has been completely revised and improved by many
new features. There are at least twice as much features as in the
old versions! Unfortunately this requires that you have to change
something at your already existing datas. I am very sorry for that,
but I could not fix these problems another way.
I would suggest you to print this file and then do the update step
by step as described below. It it is very important to do the whole
update to get a corectly working new program package!
1. Replace the old binary files:
I recommend you to use the Installer. This ensures that you won't
miss any files later on.
For an update *without* the Installer, please read the appropriate
chapter of the documantation. There you get a list what to do.
2. The main program TimeGuardian will be started from the Installer-
script. Select the desired values for the new features of Time-
Guardian 1.2 . You may enter the desired filename or value or
leave the string gadget empty. After startup the default values
will be inserted for the new features.
You have to enter the following new items:
- menu 'Prefernces->Cron Setup':
-> Log History
-> Cron Task Priority
- page 'Timer'
-> Cron Table -> Current
( the path of your ols CronTable will appear at 'Default' )
- page 'Special'
-> Once a week
-> Once a month
Please refer to the new documentation for the meaning of these new
items.
3. If you are using multiple configurations you have to load them with
'Open...', change them as described at 3 and then save them with
'Save as...' over the old config files.
4. Now you have to load all files which contain the onoff cycles into
an editor. These are the files which names you selected at 'OnOff'
in the preferences program.
You will notice that the first entry differs from all others. It
misses the point of time the computer has been turned on for the
first time. Just make an entry in the first line, so that it looks
like all the other lines. Use for date the same as the entry for
the point of time your computer has been turned off contains.
And for time something shortly before that point of time.
This could read like this:
before:
Resets: 0
System turned off: Thu 25.Aug.94 13:37
System turned on : Thu 25.Aug.94 13:46
Resets: 0
System turned off: Thu 25.Aug.94 13:46
afterwards:
System turned on : Thu 25.Aug.94 13:30
Resets: 0
System turned off: Thu 25.Aug.94 13:37
System turned on : Thu 25.Aug.94 13:46
Resets: 0
System turned off: Thu 25.Aug.94 13:46
After changing that save the text file and edit the next one, if
you have more than one 'onoff' files.
5. If you have datafiles from different years ('94,'95) you should
concatenate them to one file together. You may use a texteditor
for that, too, or you can use the 'join' command:
e.g.:
join sys:Test/LogFile.94 sys:Test/LogFile.95 TO sys:Test/LogFile
delete sys:Test/LogFile.94
delete sys:Test/LogFile.95
or
join Work:TG/OnOff.94 Work:TG/OnOff.95 TO Work:TG/OnOff
delete Work:TG/OnOff.94
delete Work:TG/OnOff.95
The new Timeguardian doesn't use the suffix anymore. If you
have datafiles from only one year, you simply rename them:
e.g.:
rename sys:Test/LogFile.94 sys:Test/LogFile
or
rename Work:TG/OnOff.95 Work:TG/OnOff
Change all names of existing data files in this way!
6. If you have written your own CronTable files, you may change the
character for the comments. Due to a little mistake it was the ';'
selected for comments and not '#' as the real Un*x syntax uses.
This was changed for version 1.2, both, the '#' and ';' signifies a
comment now. Several enhancements to the CronTable syntax were made.
Please refer to the new documentation for these features. But don't
worry, a very powerful graphical user interface for the CronTables
has been developed to make it easier for you to generate your own
CronTables.
Have fun with the new TimeGuardian!