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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler
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On 01/08/2014 23:02, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> But cron has only one event trigger: wall-clock time. And it's a very
>> blunt weapon. I'm looking for recommendations of alternative schedulers
>> that satisfy real-world business needs that need some other event
>> trigger than what the time is right now.
>
> I had a similar need recently, and since the discussion in
>
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-992780-highlight-.html
Interesting thread :-)
Conceptually, your needs are the same as mine - sequence defined by
something other than wall-clock time.
The responders there do the same thing as I experience - tunnel vision
with regard to cron. Sysadmins are used to cron and sadly most of us
want to ram a purely cron-based solution into places where it most
certainly does not belong.
Business rules very seldom fit easily into a cron model, they usually
rely on a defined sequence
>
> had led to nothing satisfactory for me, I have written a
> scheduler tool which serves my needs
> (which might very well differ from yours...):
>
> The corresponding tool is still in beta testing phase:
> https://github.com/vaeth/schedule/
>
> You can install it from the mv overlay (available over layman).
Nice, thanks for the link :-)
Now I have two projects to evaluate.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com