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Re: Time & CmdSchedule

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Subject: Re: Time & CmdSchedule
From: Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:37:24 -0500
Delivery-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 23:44:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: <19991203165242.12484@ashtech.pa.net>; from Daniel E. Markle on Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:52:42PM -0500
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> > that you created the scheduling system very cron like.  Not being a cron
> Instead of recreating the wheel here, why not just have scheduled jobs put
> cron jobs calling the CmdSchedule script with a function at the right time
> into nobody, or some other user's crontab?

That's no good.  Cron doesn't support the features we need.  And it would take more system time to
add a task to a user's physical crontab file than it would to do a single table DB insert I believe.
But even if it didn't... we need the functionality we're describing...

-- 
Jason
http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros

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