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