[rt-users] Documentation for rt-crontool

[Mike Husband]

It seems that I'm not the only one who has hunted high and low
for doc on rt-crontool.  My conclusions from a fairly extensive
search in the archives is that there is very little and it's 
hard to find.

So for the benefit of others, here is a summary of what I found:

rt-crontool allows you to run cron jobs to do such things as
escalating priority of tickets.  It allows you to search for
a set of tickets and to take specific action based on a specified
condition.

rt-crontool lives in rt_install_dir/bin.

For usage run:   rt-crontool --help
(this may take a while - wait 10 secs for output)

Location of search/condition/action modules:
rt_install_dir/lib/RT/Search, Condition, Action.
Read the modules (or perl docs) to see what each module does.

I found that I needed a little wrapper script to specify
for which queues I wished to escalate priority and then to run
rt-crontool separately for each queue.

Trust this will ease the pain for other novices.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com]On Behalf Of Dan
> Armeneau
> Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 7:29 AM
> To: RT Users
> Subject: [rt-users] Documentation for rt-crontool
> 
> 
> Where would I find the documentation for 'rt-crontool'.  I've 
> searched just
> about everywhere and even saw it mentioned in my search but 
> little that I
> have come up with has been of any value.
> 
> More specifically - I would like to increment/escalate my 
> ticket priority.
> 
> Dan
>