Re: Time & CmdSchedule

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 02:30:52PM -0500, sporty wrote:
> sounds like you are doing what I was saying.. 

Oh :).  Good.  Now that we're on the same page *grin*

> 
> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:
> 
> > Because the point is, for the develoeprs to be able to easily schedule anything they want on
> > the fly.  Or for the underlying objects to be able to add things and remove them from the
> > schedule.
> > 
> > We are developing a Perl script that will run via Cron every minute, and it will query the
> > table CmdSchedule, and run whatever that table tells it to..  That's how it will work... or
> > rather - how we're suggesting it works.  It's really not that complex.
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:58:38AM -0500, sporty wrote:
> > > 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
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jason
> > http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
> > 
> > 

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Jason
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