Re: Time & CmdSchedule

[sporty <sporty@sporty.org>]

why not write one single script that is called by cron.  then you can use
your favourite shell language or script language to do whatever you
want... 

or write a small perl script that keeps running and does whatever you
want?  sounds like you are making mountains out of mole hills...

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> > > 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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