Thread: [WIP] Prey - antitheft system
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nieldk
2014-03-19 , 12:52
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Originally Posted by solbrit View Post
That's what I thought, my bad.
With timer active prey.service should run once every hour, meaning checking your device on https://panel.preyproject.com/devices should never show Offline for >1 hour, right? In my case only running prey.service manually will update the info on url though, suggesting the timer doesn't actually call prey.service, or have I understood it all wrong?
The prey.timer is responsible for calling prey.service once an hour.
However, this may be missed, for example, the device goes to sleep. It will then call again on the next hour, depending if the device is not sleeping/have Internet access etc.
Calling the prey.service (or even the prey.sh script) manually, yes, that will trigger a login, notifying prey servers that the device has activated and responding to the device with actions to take.
So, the prey.timer calls prey.service, just as you could do manually.
 

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