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On 01/08/2014 23:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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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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I have an unusual boss. He's a business owner and quite naturally |
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profit-driven. He also employs smart people and expects us to maintain |
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systems in-house. |
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He's also a zealous FLOSS fan. |
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So when I present him a price tag for software his first question is |
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always "is there any free as in freedom software suited for the job?" |
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I'm still trying to wrap my brains around dealing with a boss that |
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thinks like this :-) |
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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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> -- |
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> Joost |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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