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On 1 August 2014 19:32:36 CEST, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>Up-front disclaimer: Mostly [OT] post. But at least I'll test drive it |
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>on Gentoo before putting it in production :-) |
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>New job, new environment. Existing persons suffer from |
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>5-year-old-with-a-hammer syndrome and assume cron is the solution to |
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>all |
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>ills. Result: a towering edifice of cron jobs that may or may not |
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>clobber each other's work, may or may not work at all, and implement no |
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>error handling at all. But my god, can they spew out mail from STOUT |
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>But cron has only one event trigger: wall-clock time. And it's a very |
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>blunt weapon. I'm looking for recommendations of alternative schedulers |
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>that satisfy real-world business needs that need some other event |
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>trigger than what the time is right now. |
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>For those familiar with it, I'm looking for something with the useful |
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>feature set, without the useless features and without the price tag of |
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>ControlM |
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>Anyone care to share experiences? |
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I'm also looking for a free alternative. |
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At most of my clients, I see Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) being used a lot. |
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It has most things what you want from an intelligent multi host scheduler. Unfortunately, it also comes with a corresponding price tag. |
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If anyone knows of an OS project with comparable features, please let me know. |
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Failing this, it is on my list to start writing one myself when I get some spare time. |
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Joost |
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |