From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 17 3:43:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D902C37B408 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 03:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 94665 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Sep 2001 10:43:49 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:43:49 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Tim Allshorn Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron pickle Message-ID: <20010917124349.C93774@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Tim Allshorn , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bAmEntskrkuBymla" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ta_iy@hotmail.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:40:15AM +1000 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer X-Work-URL: http://www.ngenn.net/ X-Work-Address: nGENn GmbH, Schloss Kransberg, D-61250 Usingen-Kransberg, Germany X-Work-Phone: +49-6081-682-304 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --bAmEntskrkuBymla Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tim Allshorn(ta_iy@hotmail.com)@2001.09.17 10:40:15 +0000: > Hello. > I need to be able to run a particular program at the last minute of e= ach=20 > month and yes I know it would be much easier to run it at the first minut= e=20 > of each month, but my hands are tied and my brain is too puny to work it= =20 > out. cron is not a good idea, because it might start the process delayed. naturally, the same with at. you might check out runwhen or other alternative schedulers that actually give you the instrumentation you need. [http://multivac.cwru.edu/runwhen/] might be a candidate /k --=20 > Condoms are like listening to a symphony with cotton in your ears. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --bAmEntskrkuBymla Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7pdPlM0BPTilkv0YRAioUAJ9SUyZvQvPIa/C8Fwu+82zvthYUBACgqIYe 0JIhqXCe5X84FyQkriYytyc= =IJ8y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bAmEntskrkuBymla-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message