Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-16 Thread Lalo Martins
Also spracht Joerg Reisenweber (Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:44:20 +0200): Am So 15. Juni 2008 schrieb arne anka: anacron see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron #Drawbacks Also anacron doesn't address the rtcwake topic. We should plan for something more versatile that's merging cron(/anacron),

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-16 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2008-06-16 11:35:22 +, Lalo Martins wrote: Also spracht Joerg Reisenweber (Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:44:20 +0200): Am So 15. Juni 2008 schrieb arne anka: anacron see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron #Drawbacks Also anacron doesn't address the rtcwake topic. We should plan for

Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread ian douglas
Suppose I could check the project page, but it's 2:30am and I'm tired and lazy. I was updating and installing some software on my Freerunner tonight to test mp3 playback and noticed again that there's still no mention of a cron engine in the opkg library. Anybody know if it's being worked on?

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2008-06-15 02:29:48 -0700, ian douglas wrote: Suppose I could check the project page, but it's 2:30am and I'm tired and lazy. I was updating and installing some software on my Freerunner tonight to test mp3 playback and noticed again that there's still no mention of a cron engine in the

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread Ilja O.
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Peter J. Holzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-06-15 02:29:48 -0700, ian douglas wrote: Suppose I could check the project page, but it's 2:30am and I'm tired and lazy. I was updating and installing some software on my Freerunner tonight to test mp3

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 15. Juni 2008 schrieb Peter J. Holzer: On 2008-06-15 02:29:48 -0700, ian douglas wrote: Suppose I could check the project page, but it's 2:30am and I'm tired and lazy. I was updating and installing some software on my Freerunner tonight to test mp3 playback and noticed again that

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread arne anka
finished. But many jobs usually don't need to run at a fixed time. They can just run the next time the device is woken up by the user. Or the next time the device has AC power. anacron ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread Mark Müller
What about upstart integration? A look into the faq of the upstart project lists replacement of cron/atd/anacron as one of the planned features [1]. [1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/faq.html#replace-cron Ilja O. schrieb: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Peter J. Holzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 15. Juni 2008 schrieb arne anka: anacron see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron #Drawbacks Also anacron doesn't address the rtcwake topic. We should plan for something more versatile that's merging cron(/anacron), at/batch, rtcwake, and the other powermanagement and wake-from-suspend

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread Uncle Kridley
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: We should plan for something more versatile that's merging cron(/anacron), at/batch, rtcwake, and the other powermanagement and wake-from-suspend reasons to make a nice cute task-scheduler Yes please! I have a long shopping list of things I'd like to schedule on a