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	thp	2013-01-16 , 10:16
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Originally Posted by stats0

I just found out that the N9 doesn't have cron on it, and profilematic isn't very suited to the task. How can I get the script to run every 15 minutes during the scheduled times? Is using sleep (15*60) in a shell script power efficient?

In your script, you can start a background script e.g. using nohup or similar mechanisms. The background script then updates a cache file, and your main script can then always read from the cache file (or show "Updating..." or something while the background script runs). See this thread (or the billboard-scripts repository) for a way to force-update Billboard after your background script has finished.

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...-in-background

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