From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 10 02:48:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E7216A420 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:48:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msoulier@digitaltorque.ca) Received: from mail.storm.ca (mail.storm.ca [209.87.239.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251F543D45 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:48:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msoulier@digitaltorque.ca) Received: from tigger.digitaltorque.ca (ppp-216-106-109-114.storm.ca [216.106.109.114]) by mail.storm.ca (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1A2m4oQ012357 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:48:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from tigger.digitaltorque.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tigger.digitaltorque.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A865B23DE1 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:47:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (from msoulier@localhost) by tigger.digitaltorque.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k1A2lwWG015191 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:47:58 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: tigger.digitaltorque.ca: msoulier set sender to msoulier@digitaltorque.ca using -f Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:47:58 -0500 From: "Michael P. Soulier" To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20060210024758.GJ357@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions References: <18e02bd30602090028y10c0ae8eyd186ee790062c93a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6yxL3IctpgIvrN+d" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18e02bd30602090028y10c0ae8eyd186ee790062c93a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Replacing cron with mcron X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:48:07 -0000 --6yxL3IctpgIvrN+d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/02/06 Iantcho Vassilev said: > Has anyone tried this? > I even think of proposing this to the base system - cron is such an old > idea.. What does mcron offer? My main complaints about cron are: 1. Difficult to do refined timing, like execute on the first tuesday of each month. I tend to use remind for this, by David Skoll. 2. It leaves synchronization up to the app, so it will happily start multip= le instances of a job that's taking too long. To work around #2, I find something like daemontools or runit a nicer way to solve the problem.=20 Does mcron solve any of these issues? Mike --=20 Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein --6yxL3IctpgIvrN+d Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6/7eKGqCc1vIvggRAuLWAKCXkpqa6fEV4zodqXNSA5OFVdWjpACgiFnl 2BzRlryvAemmjsIDaXoncIQ= =zvdW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6yxL3IctpgIvrN+d--