Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:47:58 -0500 From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacing cron with mcron Message-ID: <20060210024758.GJ357@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> In-Reply-To: <18e02bd30602090028y10c0ae8eyd186ee790062c93a@mail.gmail.com> References: <18e02bd30602090028y10c0ae8eyd186ee790062c93a@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--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 <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> "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--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060210024758.GJ357>