Hi, Up-front disclaimer: Mostly [OT] post. But at least I'll test drive it on Gentoo before putting it in production :-)
New job, new environment. Existing persons suffer from 5-year-old-with-a-hammer syndrome and assume cron is the solution to all ills. Result: a towering edifice of cron jobs that may or may not clobber each other's work, may or may not work at all, and implement no error handling at all. But my god, can they spew out mail from STOUT 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. For those familiar with it, I'm looking for something with the useful feature set, without the useless features and without the price tag of ControlM Anyone care to share experiences? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
